Australia's new legislation will require online platforms to verify users' ages, particularly banning under 16s from social media. Measures include identity checks using documents like driver's licenses and banking cards. Search engines must implement age assurance measures, enabling safe search features for users under 18. Additional codes under consideration will extend these age verification measures to app stores, AI chatbots, and messaging applications. The aim is to enhance online safety for children and restrict access to inappropriate content across various platforms.
Identity checks using IDs such as drivers licences to keep children under 16 off social media will also apply to logged-in accounts for search engines.
Measures to be deployed by online services could include looking at your account history, or using facial age assurance and bank card checks.
The code will require search engines to have age assurance measures for all accounts, and where an account holder is determined to be aged under 18, the search engine would be required to switch on safe search features.
Six more draft codes being considered would bring similar age assurance measures to a wide range of services Australians use every day, including app stores, AI chatbots and messaging apps.
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