Your digital rights

eSafety is making sure the digital rights of children and young people are protected while we work towards and enforce the new social media age restrictions for under-16s that start on 10 December 2025.

We expect social media platforms to also respect these rights.

These are eSafety’s commitments.

1. Hearing from children and young people and making sure their views shape our work.
2. Making sure our guidance for platforms reflects children’s and young people’s best interests, rights and views.
3. Providing information about the social media age restrictions in ways that different people and communities can understand.
4. Promoting wide access to online safety education.
5. Coordinating online safety activities across government and with those who support children and young people.
6. Working with other international regulators to reduce online harm and promote online safety in a way that respects and supports human rights.
7. Making sure online services meet their other legal obligations to be transparent and create safer online experiences for children and young people, and providing support to children and young people who do experience online harms like cyberbullying.
8. Doing research with children and young people to see how the social media age restrictions are going, so we can evaluate and adjust our approach.
9. Being involved in discussions about how any changes to laws can reflect children’s and young people’s best interests, rights and views.

You can read our full Statement of Commitment to Children’s Rights.