ComplianceEnforcementMar 2026Australia
Australia opens compliance investigations into five platforms over the under-16 rules
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Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube. The complaint is that users who had already declared themselves under-age could try age verification again and again, and that too little stopped a new account being made. Systemic non-compliance carries penalties up to 49.5 million Australian dollars.
Build: Retry behaviour after a failed age check is itself being read as a failure to take reasonable steps.
Who it reaches
It reaches user-to-user services with users in Australia, at any size. Age-restricted social media platforms.
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