Australians to face age checks from search engines

Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by naruhodo on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:38PM (#44440058)

Mate...

> 2038: all visits to all sites will be recorded

That's been the case since 2015. ISPs are required to record customer ID, record date, time and IP address and retain it for two years to be accessed by government agencies. It was meant to be gated by warrants, but a bunch of non-law-enforcement entities applied for warrantless access, including local councils, the RSPCA (animal protection charity), and fucking greyhound racing. It's ancient history, so I'm not sure if they were able to do so. The abuse loopholes might finally be closed up soon though.

https://privacy108.com.au/insights/metadata-access/

https://delimiter.com.au/2016/01/18/61-agencies-apply-for-me...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/government-releases-l...

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/government-acts-to-finall...

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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by marcus_holmes on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:53AM (#44440349)

I didn't know that. Thanks

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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by SlowTao on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:08AM (#44440680)

I cannot find it any more due to the degradation of Google but there was a report on the amount of times this data was access in NSW for 2018 (?). It was something like 280,000 requests for that year alone!

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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by closewith on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:38AM (#44440809)

Yes, the 2038, 2040, and 2042 scenarios are already reality in most of the world. We're in the dystopian nightmare.

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