{"id":6106,"date":"2025-06-17T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qltlex.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:04:56","slug":"the-participatory-turn-of-companies-new-scenarios-for-governance-and-stakeholders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qltlex.com\/en\/news\/qlt-news-en\/the-participatory-turn-of-companies-new-scenarios-for-governance-and-stakeholders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AGCOM sets the rules for online age verification in the European framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda Digitale has published an in-depth analysis on online age verification and privacy, by <a href=\"https:\/\/qltlex.com\/en\/team\/carlo-cunto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Carlo Cunto<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qltlex.com\/en\/team\/daniele-messina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniele Messina<\/a><\/strong>, professionals at QLT Law &amp; Tax. The article describes the new AGCOM guidelines for verifying the age of users on risky digital services, placing them in a broader regulatory context at European level.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation arises from the need to protect minors from inappropriate content, such as pornography, gambling and violence, and is part of the harmonization process started at European level, which includes tools such as the Digital Services Act, the Audiovisual Media Directive and the GDPR.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis by Cunto and Messina offers useful indications to digital platform operators, institutions and law firms to understand the legal and technical implications of age verification in the digital sector, maintaining a balance between privacy and protection of minors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agendadigitale.eu\/sicurezza\/privacy\/verifica-delleta-online-le-nuove-regole-agcom-nel-contesto-europeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to the in-depth analysis on Agenda Digitale.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda Digitale has published an in-depth analysis on online age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qlt-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AGCOM sets the rules for online age verification - QLT Law &amp; Tax<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AGCOM introduces new rules for online age verification. 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