Labor to consider age-verification ‘roadmap’ for restricting online pornography access

Australia’s eSafety commissioner provides long-awaited guidelines aimed at protecting children but some warn of privacy cost

The federal government is considering a “roadmap” on how to restrict access to online pornography to those who can prove they are 18 or older but there are warnings that any system could come at the cost of Australians’ privacy online.

On Friday the eSafety commissioner provided a long-awaited roadmap to the government for how to verify users’ ages online, which was commissioned by the Morrison government nearly two years ago.

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