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The Australian government has proposed using a facial recognition system it is developing to verify that people who seek to watch pornography online are of legal age. Current law in Australia does not prohibit minors from viewing pornography. But the federal government is considering proposals that would require people to prove their age before watching the material. Under the proposal from the Department of Home Affairs, a computer user’s face would be matched to images from official identity documents. It does not say how the user would submit a facial image at the beginning of each online session. The proposal drew immediate objections as a potential infringement of Australians’ privacy. “I think people should be very concerned about any government department that’s seeking to store this kind of information,” said Senator Rex Patrick, a centrist lawmaker from the state of South Australia. The Department of Home Affairs did not respond to questions about the proposal, and the attorney general’s office, when asked to comment on the legal ramifications of the system, directed all questions to Home Affairs. |
After Britain abandoned its pathetic attempt to require people to authenticate their identity in order to access pornographic websites, the Australian's are now taking the moral panic of minors watching porn to an entire level of ridiculousness altogether.
Presumably in order to prevent horny teenagers from swiping their parents ID's in order to circumvent any required identification checks, they would be required to take images of their face to ascertain that they really are the person they claim they are. In seeking to become world leading in "protecting children" from the latest imagined threats to their children there seems to be no limits to Anglo stupidity.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/349GxCu
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