🦊 helloyanis
2026-04-19T09:31:36Z

@vapeloki From Ursula von der Leyen on Twitter, april 15th :
"The European Age Verification App is ready"
"Our app ticks all the boxes.
✅ Highest privacy standards in the world
[...]"

The GitHub readme note was added on april 17th, so after the backlash. I guess that means they are aware they need to update stuff, at least, but again it shows how they thought the app was good to go and production ready while it clearly was not.

Obviously Ursula von der Leyen is not a developer of the app so at some point she must have been told by the developers that the app was ready, then people saw it wasn't so they added the note to the GitHub readme. That's how I think things went.