00:00You know, upload another piece of ID or some other verification mechanism.
00:06Lisa, in your vast experience of researching all things like this, how much will it actually
00:11do to protect young people online?
00:15I think it serves as a bit of a gatekeeping function, but at the end of the day, where
00:19there's a will, there's a way.
00:21People can definitely still access this content by not logging into an account.
00:25They could also use a VPN to get around it by pretending to not be in Australia, for
00:30example.
00:31And of course, in many people's homes, there's often like a family account where people might
00:36have a shared laptop logged in all the time.
00:39Parents are going to have to be very careful to ensure that they are logged out of an adult
00:43account in order for these kind of controls to be appropriately in place.
00:48Yeah, so many intricacies.
00:50Do you think other parts of the internet could follow suit?
00:53It's very interesting.
00:54I mean, we've been talking about it for some time with social media platforms.
00:58We're now seeing this with search engines.
01:00There are other codes, I understand, that are still under development by the government.
01:04So we will see what else is going to come forward in the coming months.
01:08But I think there's certainly this drive towards age assurance.
01:11That's something that's being looked at globally.
01:13And Australia is very much under the watchful eye of other countries as we start to enact these
01:18controls.
01:19Which was going to be my next question.
01:21Is Australia unique in this?
01:22Are we the only country that's doing it?
01:25This is a first as far as I'm aware.
01:27And this really kind of popped up very quickly.
01:29Many experts, we were not aware that this was coming into play.
01:34There are other countries like the UK, New Zealand.
01:37Others have been watching the social media ban and requirements around age assurance.
01:42So I think we're going to see increasingly different governments starting to look at this.
01:46Professor Lisa Given, thank you so much.
01:49My pleasure.
01:49Thanks, Lorna.
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