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Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

We are not equipped to store that level of sensitive information

For what it's worth, the legislation seems pretty clear on this one point (despite being unbelievably unclear on just about every other point):

Government-issued ID cannot be the only way a person is able to verify themselves
If Government-issued ID is used, it cannot be stored past the length of time it takes to verify

How that's going to play out in practice is anybody's guess at this point.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

If Government-issued ID is used, it cannot be stored past the length of time it takes to verify

That just reverses the circle of trust. If I can't trust the users not to lie about their age ("trust me, bro") in a DM, then the users can't trust me not to keep copies/sell their private information ("trust me, bro"). That's a super-flawed verification method.