Australia is poised to become the first country to implement a nationwide ban on social media usage for children under 16, ...

Australia is set to become the first country in the world to enforce a nationwide ban on social media access for children ...

Australia's proposed ban on under-16s using social media is gaining momentum as a government-backed trial indicates ...

Australia's world-leading ban on under-16s joining social media sites cleared a big hurdle Friday as a trial found digital ...

Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking a ...

Some age-checking applications collect too much data and no product works 100% of the time, but using software to enforce a ...

The brains tasked with finding a way to enforce Labor’s world-leading social media ban for under 16s say it is possible but that there is no “silver bullet”.

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.

The trial’s project director, Tony Allen, said “there are no significant technological barriers” to assuring people’s ages ...

A Canberra principal has raised concerns after some of his students were misidentified as being much older by facial ...

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.