Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google (www.esafety.gov.au)

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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has registered three of the nine codes submitted to eSafety by the online industry, creating safeguards to protect children from exposure to pornography, violent content, and themes of suicide, self-harm and disordered eating. The three include a code relating to search engine services, as well as codes covering enterprise hosting services and internet carriage services such as telcos.

“These three codes needed to create a high level of protections, especially for kids, to be registered. In particular, the fact the search engine code has achieved this is incredibly important as search engines are often the windows to the internet for all of us.”

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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025

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