Regulator gives industry groups six months to come up with draft code, expected to include rules about age verification
Australia’s online safety regulator has given porn websites, social media companies, search engines and others in the tech industry six months to come up with rules to prevent children from accessing adult content.
The codes will cover app stores, apps, websites including porn sites, search engines, social media services, hosting services, internet service providers, instant messaging, multiplayer gaming and online dating services.As part of the code, companies will be expected to make “reasonable efforts” to check users’ age, having opt-out default safety measures such as safe search and parental controls, and allowing users to filter or blur unwanted sexual content.
“The larger porn sites actually have fairly robust age verification provisions in place there are going to be rogue porn sites all over the internet that are never going to comply,” she said. While some of the larger adult sites have methods of age assurance in place, some have bristled at regulator attempts abroad to enforce age verification. Pornhub blockedOur Australian afternoon update breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matterstold a parliamentary committee that it believed that age checks were best left to app stores run by Apple and Google, which are best placed to protect user privacy.
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