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Australia’s incoming ban of under-16s on social media can be “privately, effectively and efficiently” enforced, an official report has found.
The Australian government is banning young teenagers from social media from December and commissioned the report to look into how the new rules could be enforced.
It explored a number of methods for verifying users’ ages, including AI facial age estimation, ID checks and parental consent.
The report found that although there was no “one-size-fits-all” approach, there were a “plethora of approaches that fit different use cases in different ways”.
“This is the most comprehensive and independent evaluation of age assurance we’ve seen,” said Julie Dawson, co-chair of the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA).
“It shows the technology works, that it can be privacy-preserving and that it is mature enough to give policymakers real confidence.”
Although the findings were celebrated by the age verification industry, the report did find inequalities in how the tech guessed the ages of some groups of people.
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