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Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Big tech platforms won’t be able to compel people to provide digital ID or government-issued identification documents such as a passport, when verifying age for social media accounts.

The government is inserting this prohibition, recommended by a Senate committee, into its legislation banning people under 16 being on various social media...

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