{"id":940020,"date":"2025-06-20T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940020"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:18:45","slug":"australias-teen-social-media-ban-faces-a-new-wildcard-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/australias-teen-social-media-ban-faces-a-new-wildcard-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s teen social media ban faces a new wildcard: teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from social media, she was surprised some products could identify a person&#8217;s age to the month &#8211; but she still doubts it will work. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are always going to find a way to get past it,&#8221; said the Perth schoolgirl who trialled five photo-based age estimation products with about 30 other students in May. &#8220;They can get their brother or sister to take a photo. There&#8217;s nothing really that you can do about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from social media, she was surprised some products could identify a person&#8217;s age to the month &#8211; but she still doubts it will work. &#8220;People are always going to find a way to get past it,&#8221; said the Perth schoolgirl who trialled five photo-based age estimation products with about 30 other students in May. &#8220;They can get their brother or sister to take a photo. There&#8217;s nothing really that you can do about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}