{"id":995723,"date":"2026-03-02T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995723"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:39:22","slug":"australia-says-it-may-go-after-app-stores-search-engines-in-ai-age-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/australia-says-it-may-go-after-app-stores-search-engines-in-ai-age-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a Reuters review found more than half had not made public any steps to comply by a deadline next week. <\/p>\n<p>The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies, which face a growing number of lawsuits for failing to stop &#8211; and even encouraging &#8211; self-harm or violence while researchers caution that such platforms are more harmful to youth mental health than social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a Reuters review found more than half had not made public any steps to comply by a deadline next week. The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies, which face a growing number of lawsuits for failing to stop &#8211; and even encouraging &#8211; self-harm or violence while researchers caution that such platforms are more harmful to youth mental health than social media.<\/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-995723","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\/995723","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=995723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}