Australia builds enforcement layer behind age assurance laws
Australia is moving beyond age assurance mandates toward a broader legal framework designed to hold online platforms accountable for harms…
Online Safety Act (Australia)
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Age verification expands in gaming: Minecraft selects Yoti, Discord tests Persona
Minecraft players in the UK with adult accounts will have to complete age checks starting in February to continue using…
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…
Persona and Paravision power Substack’s biometric age estimation
People visiting Substack from within the UK and Australia may find some content blocked or blurred out until they perform…
Age checks for social media not ready says Australian Parliamentary Committee
An Australian parliamentary committee is recommending that the government delay the implementation of the country’s age assurance law for social…
Australian opposition politician challenges age checks for social media
Australia’s Digital Freedom Project holds that the country’s age restrictions for social media, and mandated age verification to prove eligibility,…
Nudify apps face the wrath of online safety regulators as enforcement ramps up
Most technology has its defenders, the AI enthusiasts or connoisseurs of online porn. Less so for nudify or nudification apps,…
Australia latest nation to face insults, threats from US over online safety laws
America has summoned Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to answer for her alleged offenses against free speech. In a…
Australian eSafety Commissioner battling suits from Big Tech ahead of Dec 10
If the wave of age assurance legislation across the globe had a headlining showdown, it would probably be in Australia,…
Big social media platforms all covered by Australian social ban: eSafety Commissioner
Everyone’s invited. That’s the message to Big Tech from Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant. But it’s no party; the commissioner…
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