{"id":989445,"date":"2026-02-03T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989445"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:20:03","slug":"snapchat-blocks-415000-underage-accounts-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/snapchat-blocks-415000-underage-accounts-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat blocks 415,000 underage accounts in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat has blocked 415,000 accounts under Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under-16s, the company said Monday, but warned some youngsters may be bypassing age verification technology. <\/p>\n<p>The platform urged the Australian authorities to oblige app stores to check users&#8217; ages as an &#8220;additional safeguard&#8221; for the world-first crackdown. <\/p>\n<p>Platforms including Snapchat, Meta, TikTok and YouTube must stop underage users from holding accounts under the legislation, which came into effect on December 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat has blocked 415,000 accounts under Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under-16s, the company said Monday, but warned some youngsters may be bypassing age verification technology. The platform urged the Australian authorities to oblige app stores to check users&#8217; ages as an &#8220;additional safeguard&#8221; for the world-first crackdown. Platforms including Snapchat, Meta, TikTok and YouTube must stop underage users from holding accounts under the legislation, which came into effect on December 10.<\/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-989445","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\/989445","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=989445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}