United Kingdom, Sept. 1 -- Australia's plan to ban social media for under-16s is laced with risk.

The government is set to implement the world-first ban from December, which is designed to limit the harmful impacts of social media for teens.

Under the new legislation, platforms need to take "reasonable steps" to prevent Australian youngsters from creating accounts and deactivate existing ones on the site.

The forthcoming ban has been received well by parents but experts have expressed concern about data privacy and how accurate age verification is.

The federal government commissioned the UK-based Age Check Certification Scheme to analyse the ways that the ban could be enforced in Australia, with the final report published on Sunday (3...