Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Just be aware that there’s an infinitesimal chance (but not zero) that whatever you send may be sent to some government agency to demonstrate that we are complying with the law.
On this point, as I understand it, the personal information provided for verification can - and indeed should - be destroyed once it has been used for the purpose it was provided.
I assume you might need to keep a (non-identifying) record of how a user was age-verified to prove that you’ve been complying, but not the personal data used to do the verification.
Albo has been claiming that Australian privacy law requires that the data be destroyed once it’s used for age verification, but the language of the law I think has ‘reasonable’ in there, which gives more wiggle room than the GDPR, for example. It was discussed on the Law Report on Radio National: www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/…/105871968 (sorry, no idea of the timestamp, and there doesn’t seem to be a transcript either,
Nath@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
There is no requirement that the verification actually actually be personal information. So far, the responses have all convinced me they were of age, and zero of them have had any personal information. Only one user has included a part of themselves in a photo and it’s probably my favourite response - but it isn’t personally identifiable.
But you are also correct - we need to destroy stuff like government if provided. Which is even more work than this headache already is. So we don’t want that as a method.
Almacca@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Was that my bald head?
Nath@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Hahahahaha yes!l but I wasn’t going to say.
Almacca@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
I have no shame.
Pic in question -
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