Greece launches a government-sponsored parental control app

Known as “Kid’s Wallet”, the app intends to be a digital identity tool for minors, verifying their age, as well as an oversight tool for parents until the child is 15. Integrated with Greece’s government services platform, it works with the existing digital identification systems for adults. The idea is that it will confirm kids’ ages when they use social media.

As this article explains:

After downloading Kids Wallet on the child's phone, parents can create a parent-child account using their online tax identification credentials. After signing in, they choose which apps and websites their child can access, as well as how much time they should be allowed to spend on them each day. Then, the child's age is confirmed by uploading the necessary documents, which parents obtain through their account on the official state services platform, In this way, the parent creates a "digital identity" for the minor.

Many countries are taking steps to ban social media or encourage oversight of it after Australia pioneered legislation restricting access to social media for children and teenagers, allowing it only for those aged 16 or older, then Denmark followed suit.

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