Tag: Age Assurance

Australia introduces age assurance for porn sites, AI chat bots

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Pornographic websites and providers of AI companion bots will be required to check Australian users’ ages from next year, after the online safety regulator accepted industry’s plans to restrict...

Senate to probe youth social media ban

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Liberal and Nationals senators have sided with the Greens to set up a parliamentary probe into the federal government’s social media ban for under-16s and search engine age verification....

‘Privacy washing’: Age assurance trial adviser speaks out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A privacy expert who advised on Australia’s age assurance technology trial has broken ranks to raise serious concerns about the methodology and conclusions, casting further doubt on the exercise....

No barriers, no guarantees: Age assurance test results are in

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Age assurance technologies are not “guaranteed to be effective” in all applications, with usability among the main issues, an independent trial has found as the deadline for Australia’s social...

Apple ‘unresponsive’ to govt’s age assurance trial

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
US tech giant Apple has been “unresponsive” to the Albanese government’s trial of age assurance technologies ahead of a ban on young Australians accessing social media later this year....

Age assurance trial casts wide net for world-first scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...