The EU’s prototype age verification app is under fire for planning to use Google’s Play Integrity API 🔍

Critics say this could restrict non-Google Android users, harm digital sovereignty, and contradict the EU’s own antitrust stance 🇪🇺

Developers are urging alternatives like Yivi, which work without Google’s ecosystem 🛡️

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https://www.neowin.net/news/eus-new-age-verification-app-faces-criticism-over-google-dependence/

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EU's new age verification app faces criticism over Google dependence

The European Union's in-development age verification app has attracted criticism over plans to use a Google API that would harm competition.

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