Policy & regulation · Sep 16
Reuters: EU under-15 ban proposal puts age gates and AI chatbot flows on the redesign list
The draft Kids Act is still a proposal, but product teams can already see the plumbing it would test.
- Treat the draft as an architecture warning, not an enforceable ban today.
- Design separate account states for child, supervised teen, restricted teen, and autonomous users.
- Audit chatbot access controls separately from general platform onboarding.