EU KIDS Act asks platforms to prove child safety compliance.

The EU KIDS Act proposal sets out child safety obligations for digital platforms and services. Organizations must show they comply with measures like age verification and content moderation.

The IAPP overview does not say how platforms prove what safety measures ran when, or how they reconstruct decisions made by automated systems. Logs kept by the platform itself can be edited by whoever controls them.

A digital witness would show exactly when age checks ran, what content filters applied, and which safety features were active. For a platform facing enforcement or a parents' lawsuit, that record would prove the timeline of protections. The trust at stake is whether children were protected as the law requires, and the money is regulatory fines and liability claims.