By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban ...

Australia plans to introduce a law that will ban people under 16 from using social media, starting December this year, but ...

Australia has been given the green light to use age verification to implement its world-leading social media ban for ...

Children as young as 15 were repeatedly misidentified as being in their 20s and 30s during government tests of age-checking tools, sowing new doubts about whether the teen social media ban is viable.

Research which heard “significant trust and security concerns” from Australian consumers about age assurance technologies ...

Six months have passed since Australia's 'world-first' social media minimum age law was passed. Only now are we going to hear the nitty-gritty of what tech companies will need to do.

A New Zealand bill that mirrors Australia’s social media ban for users under 16 could lead to large scale data collection ...

A government commissioned survey shows that using online age assurance is wildly popular in theory, but is more complicated — and potentially less acceptable — in practice.

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Independent schools say they support the government’s plans to ban social media for people under the age of 16.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the ...

When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from ...