Australia's federal online safety regulator, responsible for administering the Online Safety Act and enforcing platform obligations including minimum-age rules.
Aylo is restoring Pornhub in Australia for users who pass Apple's iOS age checks, having blocked the country in March over rules backed by $49.5m fines. Australia's codes still place the duty to verify on the website, even though Apple now runs the check.
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Canberra's exposure draft takes a right Europe already granted and adds the part Europe left out: making platforms keep offering it. That obligation is also the rare online-safety rule a researcher can check in an afternoon.
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One in five Australian under-16s still used TikTok and Snapchat after 4.7 million accounts were restricted, according to a parental-control firm. Other governments are copying the approach with no evidence yet that it makes children safer.
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The Trump administration used Australia's own public consultation to ask that American platforms be exempted from the proposed under-18 duty of care, a request that lands while the exposure draft is still being written.
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The instruction issued to every Western Australian public school principal covers wearing, using, charging and storing the devices, reaches parents and contractors, and defines a smart glass by nine functions including AI.
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The Commission's proposal bars under-13s, holds 13-to-15-year-olds to an hour a day through accounts created from a parent's, and threatens fines of up to 6% of global sales. Council and Parliament have not voted.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted more than 350 of these ads since late last year, some of them identical to creatives Meta had already removed, which prices the cost of beating Meta's new detection tools at roughly a re-upload.
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Facebook, Instagram and TikTok would have to ask each Australian whether their default feed is algorithmic or friends-only. Approved researchers would get sanctioned fake accounts to test what the systems actually serve.
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