Google claims Australian internet data safety bill could lock teens out of Gmail accounts

Google has warned that Australian teens below 18 could potentially be locked out of their Gmail accounts. The tech giant told an Australian Senate committee that the government’s Digital Duty of Care bill could force it to run age checks on Gmail accounts. The company raised this concern at a hearing on Monday that also drew objections from Meta, TikTok and Snap. Why Google thinks emails are in the bill’s scope Rachel Lord, who heads policy for Google-owned YouTube in Australia and New Zealand, told the hearing that the problem lies in one part of the bill. This part requires age checks on any service where children could come across pornography or fetish content.

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