With the Australian governments plan to ban those under the age of 16 from accessing certain social media app has come the challenge of how to enforce it. This will mostly come through a need to be able to verify one’s age online, and after some investigating it appears to not be as simple as the government wishes it to be.

A major study was conducted recently, commissioned by the government has identified several challenges and barriers that may prove difficult. The study involved several different approaches to the verify one’s age online. So far the study has identified issues with accuracy in age verification and risks to individual privacy. The study revealed that age verification could e executed “privately, efficiently and effectively” yet there are “substantial technological limit

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