Age assurance trial casts wide net for world-first scheme


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Foreign technology firms will dominate the federal government’s trial of age assurance technologies, bringing with them dozens of cutting-edge solutions like hand and face scanning, and in many cases untested claims.

Around 50 organisations will take part in the trial, which the Albanese government announced last May to shield children from online pornography and, in a later expansion, age gate access to social media.

Analysis of the trial participants and …

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