Tag: age verification

Why a single national ID is ‘dead in the water’

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The idea that Australia needs a single, universal identification number is “dead in the water”, according to GBG’s head of data innovation Michael Harmer, who says the country’s advanced...

eSafety Commissioner to register three adult content codes

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says her office will register three industry-prepared online safety codes to protect children from exposure to pornography and age-inappropriate content. The codes, which cover...

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...

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...