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Children’s Privacy: Australia government finds age verification doable (with risks) as it heads to enforcement of kids’ social media law

With less than three months to enforcement mid-December, the Australian government has published findings of a study that determined companies there should be able (with reasonable certainty) to accurately verify age to ensure under-16s can’t access social media. There are of course risks of false positives or false negatives and questions about how companies will comply, given they won’t be told what verification products to use.