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Part 2Provider duties
Provider must take reasonable steps

8What constitutes reasonable steps

  1. Without limiting section 7, reasonable steps means that which is, or was, at a particular time, reasonably able to be done by a provider in relation to preventing an age-restricted user from being an account-holder with their age-restricted social media platform, taking into account and weighing up all relevant matters, including—

  2. the privacy of the age-restricted user; and
    1. the reliability of the method used for a person to assure the provider that they are not an age-restricted user.