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Australia Wants To Use Face Scans To Unlock Online Porn

5251858320_e30b4d759c_zAustralia’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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Check out more about Australia wanting to use face scanning on adult websites: https://www.buzzfeed.com/cameronwilson/facial-recognition-porn-australia-government-plan

U.K.’s New Porn Law Is Being Challenged In Court

Image Source: Flickr.com | User: purits
Image Source: Flickr.com | User: purits

A pair of activists are fighting the U.K. government’s measure to implement age-verification for online porn providers. Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman and feminist pornographer Pandora Blake initiated a resistance campaign called ResistAV: Legal Challenge that’s currently raising funds to challenge the proposed law. They argue that porn age-verification could compromise user privacy by enabling porn website users’ personal data to be collected, open to hacking, or sold to third-parties.

The U.K. government would not provide the software to require users to verify their age, but instead would rely on third-parties—the major concern for privacy and porn advocates. Activists argue this could potentially lead to data misuse or data breaches if personal identifiers are collected, stored improperly, or sold. “Without specific privacy controls embedded in the legislation, there is a very real risk of U.K. adults’ porn habits being outed. The government’s ill-conceived age-verification regime puts up to 25 million U.K. adults at risk,” said the activists.

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Check out more about porn activists challenging the U.K. porn law: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/uk-porn-age-verification-law/

U.K.’s New Porn Law Is Being Challenged In Court

img_5939A pair of activists are fighting the U.K. government’s measure to implement age-verification for online porn providers. Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman and feminist pornographer Pandora Blake initiated a resistance campaign called ResistAV: Legal Challenge that’s currently raising funds to challenge the proposed law. They argue that porn age-verification could compromise user privacy by enabling porn website users’ personal data to be collected, open to hacking, or sold to third-parties.

The U.K. government would not provide the software to require users to verify their age, but instead would rely on third-parties—the major concern for privacy and porn advocates. Activists argue this could potentially lead to data misuse or data breaches if personal identifiers are collected, stored improperly, or sold. “Without specific privacy controls embedded in the legislation, there is a very real risk of U.K. adults’ porn habits being outed. The government’s ill-conceived age-verification regime puts up to 25 million U.K. adults at risk,” said the activists.

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Check out more about porn activists challenging the U.K. porn law: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/uk-porn-age-verification-law/