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How a 14-year-old schoolboy easily bypassed ‘strict’ age verification scanners

How a 14-year-old schoolboy easily bypassed ‘strict’ age verification scanners

Update: 2025-12-05
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A 14-year-old Adelaide student has already humiliated the government’s incoming social media ban by tricking facial recognition software into thinking he was a 25-year-old adult.

The IPA's John Roskam explained why this "slapdash" policy is technologically impossible to enforce and why Australian children are being treated like lab rats.

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How a 14-year-old schoolboy easily bypassed ‘strict’ age verification scanners

How a 14-year-old schoolboy easily bypassed ‘strict’ age verification scanners

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