Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria has urged digital platform providers to use a behavior-based age detection system to prevent children from falsifying their age when registering as platform users.
"Platforms are generally machine-driven without in-depth verification. When children falsify their age, the system assumes they are 18, and they are freely exposed to adult content, even sexual content," he said during a focus group discussion on efforts to create a child-friendly digital space.
According to Nezar, adult content easily enters children's timelines due to loopholes in the age verification systems on digital platforms.
Therefore, digital platforms should not only rely on date of birth declaration to identify users' age, but should start implementing behavior-based age detection technology.
