How can Australia actually keep young people off social media and porn sites? A new trial will test 3 options

By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

When federal parliament passed legislation last week which will ban under 16s from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese celebrated. Posting on X, he said: “We’re doing everything we can to keep our kids safe”.

Part of that commitment involves launching a trial of age assurance technologies to determine the best way of enforcing the social media ban for under 16s and preventing young people under 18 from accessing online pornography sites.

The trial will…

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