No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
The OpenAge Initiative is a public-interest project focused on making age private, reusable, and globally interoperable. It offers a privacy-preserving infrastructure for tokenized age signals online, architecturally separating age from identity and storing no personal data. This restores user trust, encouraging compliance with legal requirements. Its double-blind architecture prevents user tracking or profiling, ensuring age assurance is not a surveillance tool. The initiative eliminates friction and cost barriers, saving platforms and users significant time and making trusted age assurance accessible to all. Built on secure, proven FIDO2/Passkey technology, it's natively supported across devices and browsers for fast adoption. Users control their credentials entirely on-device, protected by biometrics or PIN. OpenAge complements existing efforts like EUDI or OS wallets, bridging gaps in adoption and continuity, while giving users genuine control and choice over their data.
EU Legislative Interests
Participation in the EU Parliament LIBE Public Hearing on age verification, assurance and estimation techniques for the protection of minors online. The LIBE committee is focusing on implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA) by developing privacy-preserving, interoperable age assurance techniques to protect minors online. Key measures include a proposed EU age verification app, AI-based estimation, and strict data minimization, aimed at mitigating risks like harmful content while avoiding mass surveillance. OpenAge has been invited to contribute to the discussion drawing its experience in helping compliance and improve user experience based on local requirements. We advocate generally for principles of privacy, interoperability, data minimization, user centricity, and first and foremost effective protection and empowerment of digital youth.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The OpenAge initiative sits under an advisory board chaired by the founder of WeProtect Global alliance - Baroness Joanna Shields. The other members of the advisory board are representatives from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) and the South West Grid for Learning Trust (SWGfl).
Organisation Members
OpenAge was launched by and is a subsidiary of k-ID (Kidentify Pte. Ltd.- https://k-id.com/), a global compliance platform for age-appropriate digital experiences. In accordance with the Single Registration principle, this registration only covers the interest representation activities of OpenAge Initiative Pte. Ltd. The company does not represent the interests of its parent company, technology platforms, identity providers or other ecosystem partners which adopt, integrate or support the AgeKey framework. A list of key AgeKey adopters is available at https://openageinitiative.org/.