At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users, in an effort to limit children's access to harmful content ...

Australians will be required to verify their age when logged into Google or other search engines before the end of the year, as part of broader sweeping crackdowns on harmful content that include the ...

Australians will soon need to prove their age when logging on to the internet, under sweeping reforms from the Albanese ...

The rules around age verification were passed by the government in a bid to limit harmful online content, though experts have ...

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Before December search engines such as Google will need to implement several other measures aimed at protecting children ...

The security measures for Australians are based on an online safety regulation, which the eSafety Commissioner developed with ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography by verifying ...

Age-verification bills have passed in several states. Experts in digital privacy warn that they pose several risks.

The regulator Ofcom says children in the UK will be better protected from online pornography from July, as major providers, such as Pornhub, agree to bring in robust age checks.

All major adult websites - including titians such as Pornhub, Stripchat and Jerkmate - will be bringing in 'highly effective' age checks for UK users.

Pornhub's parent company Aylo said it will roll out government approved age assurance methods in the UK by July 25.