Australia’s government wants to scan the faces of people accessing adult websites. The Department of Home Affairs put forward the proposal in its submission to a parliamentary inquiry looking at age verification on online gambling and porn sites. There was immediate backlash, with opponents of the bill pointing out that a government facial recognition database would create an easy target for hackers.
Porn industry Eros Association said, “It will be interesting to see how many politicians are looking at porn. And I think they would have some interesting fetishes.” The department wrote that the facial verification technology was “primarily designed to prevent identity crime” but that it supported increased use of it “across the Australian economy to strengthen age verification processes.” Many compared it to the UK’s failed age verifying plan: “People will just make workarounds, whole new ways to to watch. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
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