{"id":328121,"date":"2025-12-04T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:27:09","slug":"the-technology-behind-australias-under-16-social-media-age-restrictions-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328121\/","title":{"rendered":"The technology behind Australia\u2019s under-16 social media age restrictions explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 5, 2025 \u2013 9.06am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s merely a coincidence that the technology used by Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nkwu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media age restriction<\/a> shares its suffix with every scandal since Watergate, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not controversial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAge-gate\u201d technology, which some social media companies have already begun to implement \u2013 before the law starts on December 10 \u2013 is meant to block access to 10 of the most popular social media platforms for anyone under the age of 16 years old who is \u201cordinarily a resident of Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 5, 2025 \u2013 9.06am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-328121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328121","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=328121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}