Australia expands age checks to AI chatbots, app stores, porn sites and more
After becoming the first country to ban under-16s from social media, Australia has now gone further by implementing one of…
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Age verification for social media, chatbots go viral with regulators globally
Age assurance has achieved memetic repeatability. Australia’s efforts to keep kids under 16 off big social media platforms are being…
Australia launches major evaluation of social media minimum age law
How is Australia’s experiment in setting a minimum age for social media use going? It’s a question many in the…
Apple updates Declared Age Range API for national, state-level age assurance laws
Apple has released a beta update to its Declared Age Range API, which it has pitched as an alternative to…
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner stands firm in face of US demands
For a few weeks, there wasn’t much news about how U.S. Congress has demanded that Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman…
Bright lights shine on age assurance as Australian law, ISO standard forge new paths
If Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) law is an experiment in regulation, it is currently under a microscope. The…
Two months in, Snapchat is still not a fan of Australia’s social media law
As Australia daily moves further into its era of age restrictions on large social media platforms, various stakeholders are offering…
How to regulate social media for teens (and make it stick): Inman Grant, Allen weigh in
As countries around the world line up online safety legislation to impose age checks on social media, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner…
Australian age assurance law prompts removal of 4.7M underage accounts
Australian regulators have released initial results from the country’s social media age restriction, showing that major social media companies removed…
Meta pledges compliance with social media laws while continuing pushback
Meta wants Australia to know that it’s toeing the line. That’s the message the company conveys with a new update…
