Correspondence Between, And Records Of Meetings Between, The Department And Employees Of Google Relating To The Minimum Age Limit For Social Media Platforms In The Time Period 1 July 2024—1 February…

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This FOI release contains correspondence between the Department of Infrastructure and Google employees from August 2024 regarding parental control features and social media regulation. Google officials shared announcements about new safety tools including "School time mode" for limiting device functionality during school hours and YouTube parental supervision features. A Google Government Affairs representative followed up a phone call with departmental staff, providing documents including South Australia's terms of reference for examining bans on children's social media access, an ACMA measurement framework consultation paper on disinformation, and an article on anxiety. Google indicated ongoing engagement on these regulatory issues affecting social media platforms and age restrictions.