To ensure compliance with upcoming Australian government regulations, Chinwag services qualifying as “social media” will have a minimum age restriction of 18 years for account holders, going forward. A verification process may be required for new accounts on creation, or retroactively for existing accounts if flagged. We will be working with a number of third-party age verification partners to implement our processes, many of whom have been operating in this space for a very long time.
If your account with a Chinwag service is flagged for verification, we are going to need you to bring us a bottle of gin (henceforth referred to as a “verification token” or “token”).
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No1@aussie.zone 8 months ago
WTF happened to the whole SSO/Identity/federated identity industry?
Wasn’t it originally meant to cater for this type of issue? I’m sure it was at least in a commercial context.
I never did it on a personal basis, because I would never use google or facebook as a source to sign in to anything.,.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 months ago
SSO/federated identity would be terrible for this. One of the biggest things people are criticising this idea for is the privacy implication. Somebody, in the current law, has to obtain private information on the user, such as footage of their face or their driver’s licence. Depending on how it’s implemented, the verifier might or might not be able to see details about your accounts on other sites or which sites you have accounts on. But in SSO, the verifier (or “identity provider”) must necessarily have that information. It would require whoever the identity provider is to have properly verified your age, and then every social media site (or, if this were a porn thing like in the US and UK, every porn site—in either case, this is the “service provider”) would redirect you via the identity provider, so the IdP knows which SPs you’re visiting.