Australia is implementing the ‘Social Media Minimum Age Act’ and today, Snapchat has strongly voiced its disagreement with this classification, arguing that its service is primarily a visual messaging ...

Snapchat has shared its recent compliance efforts with Australia's Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) but sees major gaps - calling for age-verification at an app-level. As of January 2026, Snapchat has ...

Starting this week, Snapchat will ask many users to verify their age to continue accessing Snapchat. These users will see a ‘Verify Your Age’ prompt when they open Snapchat. Later this year, the ...

Under age Snapchat users are verifying their accounts by scanning the faces of people who are decades older and of a different gender, exposing a major loophole in the Albanese government’s signature ...

Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, ...

Snapchat has announced that it will begin enforcing mandatory age verification in Australia as the country’s new Social Media Minimum Age Act comes into effect. The law restricts the use of platforms ...

Singapore-based “age-gating” company k-ID suffered a major outage in the hours before Australia’s new social media age limit laws came into effect. The company reported an outage of its “family portal ...

From December 10, Australia will force social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, to remove users under the age of 16 or face hefty fines. "Starting this week, many users will ...

In-app notifications go out this week to users believed to be aged under 16 ahead of 10 December social media ban Australia’s world-first social media ban begins Australian social media ban explained: ...