Haven’t seen much scrutiny over the “landmark” report released by the government a couple of weeks ago which forms the basis for the practical implementation of this system.

…gov.au/…/age-assurance-technology-trial-final-re…

It’s not an academic study from a trusted institution or even just an established think tank, but from an organisation that sort of popped up out of nowhere some years ago which appears to provide paid certification services for age assurance companies, while also evidently offering “research” for governments on the viability of implementing these schemes. They’d previously done a similar report for the UK government, which makes me rather cynical about our government’s motivations in choosing them. The news reporting on its release was a bit strange as it made it sound like the report was quite sceptical, but you don’t need to spend much time looking at it to see it’s very much telling the government what it wanted to hear (given they’d already committed to implementing such a scheme).

The companies people will be required to provide their documents/biometrics to also kind of popped up out of nowhere, and these are the sorts of folks behind them: bylinetimes.com/…/the-online-safety-act-is-forcin…