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Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns
Some experts have said the new codes represented a big shift in how Australians used the internet. (Supplied: Pexels)
New online safety codes requiring R-rated games and websites to verify users' ages are now in effect.
The targeted services must manage verification and ensure they comply with Australia's privacy laws, or risk penalties of up to $49.5 million.
Some experts have raised concerns about the privacy of Australians online amid previous age-verification data leaks.
Australia's new online safety codes requiring age verification for R-rated games and websites may compromise user privacy, experts say.
The comments follow the eSafety Commissioner's introduction of age restrictions for online content, including high-impact violence, pornography and self-harm material.
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Lecturer and Research Fellow in Communications and Sexologist, Edith Cowan University
Giselle Woodley is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Linkage project: LP250100343 Working with teens to co-design a porn literacy program that mitigates potential harm and thus receives funding from the ARC. She also receives funding from the Daniel Morconbe Foundation for her consultation and presentations relating to online safety. She is affiliated with Bloom-Ed, a Relationships and Sexuality Education advocacy group (http://bloom-ed.org).
Megan Lim has previously received funding from VicHealth and the Office of the eSafety Commissioner for development of a pornography education program.
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Porn ban: Australians must prove they are over 18 to access adult content under new laws
Australians must prove they are over 18 before they can access adult content such as porn, R-rated video games and sexually explicit AI chatbots under new laws.
The changes will protect children from harmful content, with platforms fined for breaches, Australia's online safety regulator said.
"We don't allow children to walk into bars or bottle shops, adult stores or casinos, but when it comes to online spaces… there are no such safeguards," its commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.
Experts say the new laws – which come three months after Australia introduced an under-16s social media ban – will face similar concerns over data privacy and users trying to trick age-verification technologies.
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