Australia, which passed a first-of-its-kind ban on social media for children under 16 in December, will soon require search engines to check the age of users before responding to their queries.
The new rules for mandatory age checks by search engines were introduced in June and will take effect in December. Companies like Google, the dominant search engine in Australia, will face fines of $50 million for failing to require age verification.
The regulations listed seven ways providers can verify the ages of search engine users, including photo ID, facial recognition, credit card numbers, digital ID cards, and the assurances of an Internet…
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