VPNs and naughty parents: Teen social media trial isn’t testing some ways kids will get around the ban

> It said the trial would test if the technology could identify a person in a disguise or using a photograph of someone, but that it would not test for ways that people might “make deliberate, concerted efforts to evade the age assurance check which are beyond reasonable expectations for providers to mitigate”.
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> It gave an example of not testing for whether a method could be side-stepped by having a parent or older sibling take the age check on a child’s behalf.
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> Another common example is using a VPN, a widely available web service that allows a user to funnel their internet traffic through other countries to access social media without the teen social media ban.