After users go through the age checks, they will be assigned to age groups ranging from under 9, 9 to 12, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, 18 to 20 and over 21. Users will then be able to chat with their age group ...

Despite a court challenge, Australia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on certain social media platforms ...

“If Australia bans social media, UK businesses will feel the shock quickly. Australia is a key part of global traffic ...

In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...

Under-16s on Meta platforms are starting to have their accounts removed ahead of Australia’s world-first social media ban.

And on top of immediate privacy issues, the expansion of digital ID services does increase the demand for verification in the future. On its website, Apple envisions a world where you can use this ...

Online gaming giant Roblox has just announced it will start checking users’ ages from early December in an attempt to stop children and teenagers talking with adults. In what the company has described ...

Teen users on Instagram, Facebook and Threads will start receiving texts, emails and in-app messages today letting them know ...

The company says age verification checks will start in early December, around the same time Australia's social media ban for under-16s is set to come into effect.

From 10 December, social media companies will have to take “reasonable steps” to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot ...