The landmark Social Media Minimum Age bill sets Australia up as a test case for a growing number of governments.
Australia’s controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms ...
Age assurance, an umbrella term that refers to technologies for verifying, estimating, or inferring an internet user's age, ...
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Australia's full legislature has now passed a bill that will soon ban children under the age of 16 from using most social ...
The Australian law passed on Thursday forces tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta to TikTok to stop ... will ...
Australia will become the first country in the world to outlaw social media use among under-16s. Children will no longer be ...
The platforms will have one year to work out how they could implement the ban before penalties are enforced. Meta ... in Australia, said questions remain about the law’s impact on children, its ...
Australia’s parliament has passed a law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to ...
From late 2025, platforms including Meta's (META.O) Instagram, Elon Musk's X, TikTok and Snapchat (SNAP.N) must show ...
Last year, France passed legislation that requires children under 15 to get a parent’s permission before getting a social ...
A social media ban for children under 16 will be the first law in the world to levy fines on TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, ...