What the proposal sets out
As published, the proposal seeks to protect minors from risky digital services and AI systems, and it limits autonomous account creation on social media and video platforms by children below the age of 15. The threshold is harmonised across member states rather than left to diverge nationally. That splits into two questions for a platform, and they are answered by different parts of this API.Age assurance: is this user above the threshold
An age floor is only as good as the assurance behind it. Tuteliq provides the detection half of that, not the legal determination:
Which of those is sufficient evidence for a 15-year threshold is a question for
your regulator and your counsel, not for us. Different member states have taken
different positions on what counts as proportionate age assurance, and the
proposal’s own standard is one of the things that may change before adoption.
Minor protection: what happens to the minors who are on the service
The under-15 provision does not remove the duty toward 15, 16 and 17 year olds who are lawfully on a platform, nor toward under-15s who reach it another way. The detection endpoints cover that half: grooming, bullying, self-harm and distress, CSAM and nudity screening, and synthetic media. The KOSA coverage page has the harm-category mapping, which is drawn from a different statute but covers the same ground.What this page does not claim
- Not a compliance determination. We describe capabilities; your obligations are yours to establish.
- Not certification. No age-assurance scheme has certified this API against the proposal, because the proposal is not law.
- Not a prediction. We are not forecasting whether the proposal is adopted, when, or in what form.