These official sources help schools, service providers, researchers and policymakers evaluate where the UuLApp proposal fits. Links are informational; UuLApp is not a legal-compliance certification.
Guidance for platforms accessible to minors, including measures addressing unwanted contact, harmful content, cyberbullying and age assurance.
Open official guidance ↗EU work on privacy-preserving proof of age and a harmonised age-verification approach.
Open official page ↗Principles including necessity, proportionality, purpose limitation, data minimisation and effective privacy protection.
Open EDPB statement ↗EU data-protection law, including special protection for children and privacy-by-design obligations.
Open GDPR ↗Official FTC information and compliance resources on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule.
FTC Children’s Privacy ↗Current FTC policy conditions for certain age-verification processing, including purpose limitation, limited retention, notice and security safeguards.
FTC policy statement ↗US child-safety organisation and CyberTipline resources relevant to online exploitation and child protection.
NCMEC ↗Laws and regulatory guidance evolve. A production UuLApp implementation should undergo jurisdiction-specific legal review, security review and data-protection impact assessment where required.
UuLApp is an independent protocol proposal. It has not been presented as an EU-approved certification or a substitute for a provider’s legal obligations.
Child-safety purposes still need a lawful basis, proportionate processing, transparency, security and appropriate safeguards. A school’s existing records are not automatic permission for a new purpose.
GDPR — official textArticle 28 applies to the online platforms within its scope, with relevant exemptions. It includes a restriction on profiling-based advertising to known minors and does not itself oblige extra data collection to identify minors.
DSA — official textEU rules do not prescribe school-only certification or a blanket ban on every adult-child interaction. UuLApp’s child-only spaces are a proposed safeguard; lawful professional and family contact needs separate, proportionate rules.
Commission guidance on minorsNecessity, proportionality, accessibility and fairness matter alongside safety. Verification should not enable cross-service tracking or unnecessarily exclude children without a participating school.
EDPB age-assurance statementThe legal scope and safeguards must be checked for each country, school and service before deployment. Technical testing and a lawful operating model are necessary; website wording alone cannot demonstrate compliance.
