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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

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

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A spokesperson for minister Michelle Rowland said the government would consider the age-verification roadmap and ‘outline steps’ in coming months. Photograph: Jozef Polc/Alamy

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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