Nearly five million under 16 accounts have been deactivated or restricted. The government’s independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, which evaluated 48 providers before commencement, found age assurance can be done privately, robustly and effectively. Compliance reviews have focused on platforms whose implementations were too easy to retry or bypass, and the government has moved to double maximum penalties.
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