"our concerns about determining age online without an industry standard remain."
"We call on the Australian government to engage with industry constructively to find a better way forward, such as incentivising all of industry to raise the standard in providing safe, privacy-preserving, age appropriate experiences online, instead of blanket bans,"
"This is the only way to guarantee consistent, industry-wide protections for young people, no matter which apps they use, and to avoid the whack-a-mole effect of catching up with new apps that teens will migrate to in order to circumvent the social media ban law,"
Australia’s new social media law, effective 10 December, bans accounts for users under 16 and requires major platforms to stop holding such accounts. Meta deactivated 544,052 accounts it believed were held by users under 16 between 4 and 11 December: 330,639 on Instagram, 173,497 on Facebook and 39,916 on Threads. Companies found not to be in compliance face fines up to AUD49.5 million (about US$33 million). Meta said it remains committed to complying but expressed concerns about reliably determining age online and urged industry-wide, privacy-preserving age verification and parental-approval mechanisms.
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