{"id":324164,"date":"2025-12-03T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324164\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:48:10","slug":"how-social-media-figures-out-your-age-without-you-even-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324164\/","title":{"rendered":"How social media figures out your age without you even knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Australia\u2019s teen social media ban comes into effect in one week\u2019s time, tens of millions of Australians will have their age checked by big tech to ensure they\u2019re old enough to have an account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But many people \u2014 if not most \u2014 won\u2019t even notice that it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of the coverage about how companies will enforce the teen social media ban has focused on methods like facial scans or requiring the account holder to provide government identification.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Australia\u2019s teen social media ban comes into effect in one week\u2019s time, tens of millions of Australians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31879,256,254,255,64,63,2458,31439,32847,1314,105,127043,101],"class_list":["post-324164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-age-verification","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-data","tag-esafety-commissioner","tag-snapchat","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-teen-social-media-ban","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}