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

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 ...

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.

Australia has passed a sweeping social media ban for children under the age of 16 in what will soon become a world-first law. The ban is aimed at safeguarding young people from the dangers posed ...

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.

The report said what it termed "problematic" social media use was on the rise, with a direct link between heavy internet use ...

SYDNEY -- Jackson, a 14-year-old high school student in Sydney, usually spends around three hours a day scrolling through his ...

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

The Albanese Government's proposed social media ban for children under 16 will fail unless mums and dads step up.

French President Emmanuel Macron has joined other European and North American leaders in a call for age verification ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government advised parents on Tuesday not to have children under 15 use social media ...