# Your Age Is Now Required: Australia's Social Media Ban Explained

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Podcast: [Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322)
Published: 2025-12-12T00:36:28+00:00
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## Resource

This week's Surveillance Report covers the dangerous reality that social media bans ARE age verification, India's push for even more invasive phone surveillance, a massive vulnerability actively exploited against major companies, the EU's new proposal to gut GDPR protections, Petco's escalating security disasters, border agents charging people for protecting their data, and more! Support Techlore: https://techlore.tech/support TimestampsSources00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report00:40 Highlight: Australia's Social Media Ban08:06 Vulnerability Hitting Countless Sites09:52 India's Surveillance Tech Continues13:30 Support Techlore!14:50 EU's Digital Omnibus19:56 Petco's Data Breach(es) Saga23:20 Man Arrested for Wiping Phone?27:20 Defense Bulletin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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