New rules aimed at protecting kids online are now in force, but a major porn company has all but shut down its Australian presence instead.
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It’s possible to provide truly anonymous age checks online – but it takes investment.
The new year will bring new controls over what you see online – such as blurring pornographic or violent search results if you’re not logged in.
Selfies with passports or drivers’ licences can open users to sophisticated forms of fraud.
A new report on age assurance technology leaves key questions about Australia’s looming youth social media ban unanswered
The Online Safety Act intends to put greater responsibility on platforms and content creators themselves for children’s safety.
The trial’s preliminary findings are hard to square with other evidence.
Even those involved in the trial admit there are major problems with the tech that’s being tested.
In China, many people see video games as ‘spiritual opium’. However, laws restricting young people’s play have proven difficult to enforce in practice.
The trial is testing age verification, age estimation and age inference. All three options come with problems.
Major tech platforms have been given six months to come up with an enforceable code that protects children from harmful material online. What might that look like?
Young people use social media to connect with culture and community, and to have a voice on political issues that concern them.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
There are many limitations to what technology can do to bar underage people from porn. Importantly, the very idea distracts from evidence-based solutions.
We asked young people and parents what they thought about age-verification tools to restrict access to certain online content. We found their voice isn’t being reflected in broader debates.
The Australian government will test tools to shield kids from inappropriate material online. Even though there’s no one easy fix, these checks could help.
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, University of Sydney
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Head of School of Art, Communication and English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Chair of Discipline, Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Sydney Games and Play Lab, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Acting Professor of Statistics, Security & Trust, University of Münster
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Graduate Researcher, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Education Futures, La Trobe University