Comment on Trial finds age assurance can be done, as social media ban deadline looms
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days agoWe 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 verifies 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 3 days ago
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.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Oh yeah definitely. I just view that as a separate problem. Both are problems, but as I see it: