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Software testers hired by Australia\u2019s government to determine how to enforce the world\u2019s\u00a0first national teen social media ban\u00a0have worked on defence and election contracts but will use another experience to guide their study: wrangling their own children online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all parents of kids of various ages and we\u2019re definitely aware of all the little tricks kids do,\u201d said Andrew Hammond, general manager at tech contractor KJR which will conduct the trial on about 1,200 randomly chosen Australians from January to March.<\/p>\n
\u201cKids are quite resourceful so we\u2019ll definitely have our eyes and ears open,\u201d added Hammond, whose company\u2019s previous projects included checking deployment software for Australian troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The study, one of the biggest ever trials of age-checking technology, will likely set the course for lawmakers and tech platforms around the world as they navigate a push to age-restrict social media at a time of growing concern about youth mental health and data collection.<\/p>\n
From late 2025, platforms including Meta\u2019s\u00a0(META.O),\u00a0Instagram, Elon Musk\u2019s X, TikTok and Snapchat\u00a0(SNAP.N),\u00a0must show Australians they are taking reasonable steps to keep out users under 16 or face fines up to A$49.5 million ($32 million). Google\u2019s\u00a0(GOOGL.O), YouTube, a classroom staple, is exempt.<\/p>\n
But the legislation does not specify what those reasonable steps must be. That is down to the trial, overseen by the Age Check Certification Scheme, a British consulting firm, which expects about 12 participating tech firms and must give recommendations by mid-2025.<\/p>\n
Options include age estimation where a user\u2019s video selfie is biometrically analysed then deleted; age verification where a user uploads identifying documents to a third-party provider which sends an anonymous confirmation \u201ctoken\u201d to the platform; and age inference where a user\u2019s email address is cross-checked with other accounts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe approach the Australian government takes could influence how other countries approach online age checks for social media content,\u201d said Julie Dawson, chief policy and regulatory officer at age-verification company Yoti, which does age checks for Meta\u2019s new system of\u00a0heightened privacy settings\u00a0for teenage Instagram users.<\/p>\n
Some European countries and U.S. states have legislated age minimums for social media, but none has rolled out an enforcement regime due to legal challenges based on preserving privacy and free speech.<\/p>\n
Even lawmakers in Australia\u2019s conservative opposition, whose support was needed to get the centre-left government\u2019s ban through parliament, warned the ban could justify collecting personal information \u2013 an echo of a November post from X owner Elon Musk that it \u201cseems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians\u201d.<\/p>\n
Communications Minister Michelle Rowlands told parliament the ban was \u201cnot about government mandating any form of technology or demanding any personal information handed over to social media companies\u201d.<\/p>\n
A last-minute change to the law stipulates that platforms asking for identifying documents must offer an alternative age-gate.<\/p>\n
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Item 1 of 2 A screengrab shows a post on X from Elon Musk regarding an Australian bill to regulate social media on November 21, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. Elon Musk Via X\/via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n
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Pressure to block minors from parts of the internet has been around since pornography and gambling websites overran the early worldwide web. It has taken on a new urgency since a Meta whistleblower leaked internal emails in 2021 purportedly showing knowledge its products were harmful to young users. Meta\u00a0has said\u00a0the documents were misinterpreted.<\/p>\n
Rising demand has spurred technological development, but no product yet is fool-proof when it comes to combining accuracy, privacy, security and user-friendliness, said Tony Allen, CEO of the Age Check Certification Scheme, which will test products for Australia on those criteria.<\/p>\n
Adding to the challenge, many\u00a0people in the age range\u00a0targeted by bans do not have common identifying documents such as a driver\u2019s licence or credit card.<\/p>\n
That helps the case for age-checking technology involving analysis of a person\u2019s features, such as facial wrinkles or their hand.<\/p>\n
Yoti, Meta\u2019s age-checking partner, says its accuracy has improved to the point where it can pick more than 99% of people aged 13-17 as under 25. It says its standard deviation of error in guessing the age of an 18-year-old is just over one year.<\/p>\n
That may not yet be accurate enough for an age restriction in a country of 27 million people, said Konstantin Poptodorov, director of fraud and identity for digital identification company LexisNexis Risk Solutions, while noting the rapid improvements and uptake of technologies such as facial recognition in the past decade.<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s policy director for Australia and New Zealand, Mia Garlick, said Yoti benefitted Instagram\u2019s teen privacy policy but appearance-wise \u201csome people grow up really quickly, and some people don\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meta didn\u2019t know if expanding its Yoti arrangement would satisfy the Australian ban because \u201cwe don\u2019t know if what we do currently is going to be considered \u2018reasonable steps’\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n
Providers which rely on uploaded identification documents may participate in the trial but \u201calmost the whole ethos behind the way age assurance works is \u2018we don\u2019t want to collect any data\u2019,\u201d said age certification scheme CEO Allen.<\/p>\n
Software testers would ask some trial participants to try and fool the technology with appearance-adjusting filters but would weed out only the products which failed to stop workarounds deemed cheap and scalable.<\/p>\n
Allen had no front-runner for what product he would recommend but did predict one recommendation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be choice for consumers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should all be as effective and meet a certain level of assurance, but if you\u2019re looking for a silver bullet you won\u2019t find it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Software testers hired by Australia\u2019s government to determine how to enforce the world\u2019s\u00a0first national teen social media ban\u00a0have worked on defence and election contracts but will use another experience to guide their study: wrangling their own children online. \u201cWe\u2019re all parents of kids of various ages and we\u2019re definitely aware of all the little tricks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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