{"id":19953,"date":"2025-09-01T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/under-16s-ban-how-hard-will-it-be-for-australian-social-media-users-to-prove-their-age\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:37:17","slug":"under-16s-ban-how-hard-will-it-be-for-australian-social-media-users-to-prove-their-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/under-16s-ban-how-hard-will-it-be-for-australian-social-media-users-to-prove-their-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-16s ban: how hard will it be for Australian social media users to prove their age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age assurance technology trial found errors are inevitable \u2013 meaning users might have to provide other ID or appeal against wrongful bans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It could take just 40 seconds: that\u2019s how long Australians might have to wait for age assurance technology to assess they\u2019re allowed to be on social media from December, when the under-16s ban comes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>But the reality is, for many users, it could be a much more complicated and time-consuming process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/02\/under-16s-ban-how-hard-will-it-be-for-australian-social-media-users-to-prove-their-age\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be645ca6e8e93a30ae127cf53605261789e1b768\/339_0_4027_3222\/master\/4027.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f629b178a2b7eca512c6eb2eacc010d8\" title=\"Under-16s ban: how hard will it be for Australian social media users to prove their age?\" \/>The age assurance technology trial found errors are inevitable \u2013 meaning users might have to provide other ID or appeal against wrongful bans<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nIt could take just 40 seconds: that\u2019s how long Australians might have to wait for age assurance technology to assess they\u2019re allowed to be on social media from December, when the under-16s ban comes into effect.<br \/>\nBut the reality is, for many users, it could be a much more complicated and time-consuming process. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age assurance technology trial found errors are inevitable \u2013 meaning users might have to provide other ID or appeal against wrongful bans Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It could take just 40 seconds: that\u2019s how long Australians might have to wait for age assurance technology to assess they\u2019re &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/under-16s-ban-how-hard-will-it-be-for-australian-social-media-users-to-prove-their-age\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under-16s ban: how hard will it be for Australian social media users to prove their age?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}