Digital ID requirements, artificial intelligence profiling and vocal analysis are all on the table as part of the federal government’s search for ways to ban teens from using social media.
Late on Tuesday, the federal government announced that it would seek to pass legislation that would give it the power to ban teenagers from social media and other digital platforms.
It will introduce a bill before the end of this Parliament, although it hasn’t committed to a specific age limit yet.
As part of this proposal, the government has started the process of trialling technologies that make it possible to verify or estimate a user’s age online.
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