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Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions has led to little to no reductions in social media use

bmjgroup.com English

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1224698/australias-under-16-social-media-restrictions-has-led-to-little-to-no-reductions-in-soci

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    Little evidence that Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions have curbed use among adolescents - BMJ Group
    bmjgroup.com
    Longer term evaluation needed, but current age verification checks are “suboptimal” and being bypassed by many under 16s, warn researchers There is little evidence that Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act has led to any immediate reductions in social media use by under 16s, finds an early analysis of survey data published by The BMJ today. While the researchers acknowledge that
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    • Funwayguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      But they did such a great job of feeding the world’s most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.

      Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.

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