The EU Commission has published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act. While the most controversial stipulations – namely a ban for under 13’s and restrictions for under 15 year old kids – only apply to social networks and video sharing platforms – others also apply to online games. If approved, the rules would apply to all online games sold in EU territories, and introduce significant restrictions to common online features – the definition is extremely broad and could be held to cover everything from Roblox to the multiplayer mode of a disc-based game. Here is a first analysis.
