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Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...

Meta removes 544k teen accounts in Australia

12 January 2026 | by Justin Hendry

More than half a million accounts belonging to children under 16 were blocked across Meta platforms in the lead-up to Australia’s world-leading ban on teen social media use. New...

Social media ban takes effect as High Court challenge looms

10 December 2025 | by David Allen

Australia’s world-first social media ban has begun as planned, but expectations remain low. Young people plan to evade it, tech companies oppose it and at least one High Court...

Meta starts clock on teen account purge ahead of social media ban

20 November 2025 | by David Allen

Meta is planning to offload under-16s from its platforms and block the creation of new underage accounts up to a week before the teen social media ban comes into...

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