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From: TimF10/28/2019 10:12:00 PM
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Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
What could possibly go wrong?
Timothy B. Lee - Oct 28, 2019

Lawmakers in Australia (like their counterparts in the United Kingdom) are looking for an effective way to limit kids' access to online pornography. Australia's Department of Home Affairs has a possible solution: face-recognition technology.

"Home Affairs is developing a Face Verification Service which matches a person’s photo against images used on one of their evidence of identity documents to help verify their identity," the government agency wrote in a recent regulatory filing. "This could assist in age verification, for example by preventing a minor from using their parent’s driver license to circumvent age verification controls."...

arstechnica.com
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