The global spotlight on the first such ban on people under 16 using popular apps appears to have encouraged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

Indonesia has issued a second summons to Google and Meta. The tech giants allegedly ignored a new ban on social media for users under 16. T...

While 5 million Australian accounts had been deactivated, a substantial number of Australian children continued to retain accounts, create ...

In a bold move, Indonesia has called on representatives from Meta and Google due to new regulations targeting social media use among childr...

Under the Australian law, platforms face a fine of up to A$49.5 million ($34 million) ⁠for noncompliance, and the regulator added on Tuesda...

Indonesia's social media curbs, which the government says ⁠are intended ⁠to reduce the risk of cyberbullying and addiction, follow a ban in...

British MPs struck down proposals for a blanket ban on social media for children under 16, as the government backed a separate consultation...

Tech giants have blocked 4.7 million accounts under Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, the country's online safety wat...

Tech giant Meta urged Australia on Monday to rethink its world-first social media ban for under-16s, while reporting that it has blocked mo...

Tech giant Meta said Thursday it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country's w...

The company said it had begun notifying users it believed were between 13 and 15 years old that their accounts will be shut down through in...

Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove diff...

The setup for the age verification app is built on the same technical specifications as the European Digital Identity Wallet which will be ...

The proposed law would empower Australia's competition regulator to oversee compliance, investigate anti-competitive practices online and f...

The Australian government said it would make tech platforms set codes of conduct governing how they stop dangerous falsehoods spreading, to...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the treasury department are consulting internet, banking and telecommunicatio...

Meta is considering blocking news content in Australia over licensing fees. The company awaits government decisions on fee regulations for ...