Tag: Social Media

Australia gets world-first social media age ban

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

Social media ban: Platforms could be left to ‘infer’ age

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Social media platforms could use information they already hold about an individual to infer whether that user is under 16, avoiding the need to collect further identification or biometric...

Social media ban bill lifts online safety fines to $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Tech giants face fines of up to $50 million for breaches of Australia’s online safety laws under legislation introduced to give rise to a world-first social media ban for...

Age verification tech trial results still six months away

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

Coalition demands split of privacy package

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal Opposition has accused the government of wedge tactics by bundling a right to sue with other privacy reforms and new doxxing laws, and is threatening to withhold...

Platform giants face digital duty of care in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Tech giants like Meta and X face a European-style duty of care to proactively protect Australian users under an Albanese government plan that could produce legislation by the end...