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...
Unless you work in public policy, you may not be aware of the many discussions happening about protecting Australian kids on the internet beyond just the upcoming social media...
A bill that requires Apple and Alphabet’s Google to verify the age of users of their app stores could become law this week in Texas, putting the second-most-populous state...
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...
When federal parliament passed legislation last week which will ban under 16s from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese celebrated. Posting on X, he said: “We’re doing everything we...
Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the bill passing in the last hour of Parliament for the...
A trial of age verification technology will not deliver its findings to the federal government until six months after proposed legislation banning social media for under-16s is introduced to...
Australia will move to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the federal government expected to introduce world-first legislation to Parliament before the end of...
New laws banning children under a certain age from social media platforms will be introduced in Australia, with age verification technology to be trialed as a way of limiting...
There is now a bipartisan push in Australia for children aged under 16 to be banned from using social media. To do this a form of online age verification...