{"id":21037,"date":"2025-12-02T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/instagrams-age-verification-identified-a-moustachioed-adult-as-over-16-but-how-did-it-go-with-a-13-year-old\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:37:17","slug":"instagrams-age-verification-identified-a-moustachioed-adult-as-over-16-but-how-did-it-go-with-a-13-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/instagrams-age-verification-identified-a-moustachioed-adult-as-over-16-but-how-did-it-go-with-a-13-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram\u2019s age-verification identified a moustachioed adult as over 16 \u2013 but how did it go with a 13-year-old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta platform allows users under 16 in Australia to change their date of birth \u2013 but only after clearing a \u2018video selfie\u2019 or providing government ID<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/02\/australia-news-live-one-nation-liberal-coalition-barnaby-joyce-pauline-hanson-budget-estimates-labor-ai-plan-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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>Instagram\u2019s process for determining whether a user is over 16 is relatively quick and painless if you\u2019re clearly an adult \u2013 but how does it work if a 13-year-old tries to change their account\u2019s date of birth to make them appear grown up?<\/p>\n<p>Meta in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/19\/meta-starts-notifying-australian-teens-of-account-shutdowns-as-social-media-ban-looms\">began notifying Instagram and Facebook users<\/a> whose date of birth is set as under 16 \u2013 or who the platform understands to be under 16 \u2013 that their accounts will be deactivated as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/social-media-ban\">Australia\u2019s social media ban<\/a> for children. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/nov\/23\/australia-under-16-social-media-ban-how-will-it-work-which-platforms-age-verification\">ban takes effect on 10 December<\/a>, but Meta has said it will start removing access to users under 16 from 4 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/01\/instagram-age-verification-u16-social-media-ban-australia-moustache\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0fa7c21ca3401969fd960925e5dde9c7845fde72\/0_0_2500_2001\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eccf18c4ffafb74f16e09c02f007474d\" title=\"Instagram\u2019s age-verification identified a moustachioed adult as over 16 \u2013 but how did it go with a 13-year-old?\" \/>Meta platform allows users under 16 in Australia to change their date of birth \u2013 but only after clearing a \u2018video selfie\u2019 or providing government ID<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Instagram\u2019s process for determining whether a user is over 16 is relatively quick and painless if you\u2019re clearly an adult \u2013 but how does it work if a 13-year-old tries to change their account\u2019s date of birth to make them appear grown up?<br \/>\nMeta in November began notifying Instagram and Facebook users whose date of birth is set as under 16 \u2013 or who the platform understands to be under 16 \u2013 that their accounts will be deactivated as part of Australia\u2019s social media ban for children. The ban takes effect on 10 December, but Meta has said it will start removing access to users under 16 from 4 December. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta platform allows users under 16 in Australia to change their date of birth \u2013 but only after clearing a \u2018video selfie\u2019 or providing government ID Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Instagram\u2019s process for determining whether a user is over &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/instagrams-age-verification-identified-a-moustachioed-adult-as-over-16-but-how-did-it-go-with-a-13-year-old\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instagram\u2019s age-verification identified a moustachioed adult as over 16 \u2013 but how did it go with a 13-year-old?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21038,"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\/21037"}],"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=21037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}