By the end of 2025, Australia will implement age verification for search engines such as Google.

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Lisa Given, Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University, informed 6PR Breakfast hosts Millsy and Karl that while companies could face fines of up to $50 million per breach, the specific mechanisms for age identification have not yet been disclosed.

“The types of checks they could do,” she said, “they could ask for government-issued ID, they could do facial scanning to kind of estimate your age, they could look at your previous history.”

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