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It’s possible to provide truly anonymous age checks online – but it takes investment.
Meta has revised how teenagers will experience Instagram. It’s a win – especially if it prompts parents to talk to their kids about online safety.
Experts know simply banning kids from social media isn’t going to protect them from harm – but there’s lots of evidence on what we can do instead.
The Australian government will test tools to shield kids from inappropriate material online. Even though there’s no one easy fix, these checks could help.
The risk of experiencing harm online is real, especially for children – but decades of research don’t support the alarmist tropes used in these conversations.
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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RMIT University
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Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University
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Co-Director, Young and Resilient Research Centre/Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Acting Professor of Statistics, Security & Trust, University of Münster
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Human-Computer Interaction, University of Sydney
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Professor, Computer Science, University of Sydney
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney