Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in world first

Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by BoppreH on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:57PM (#46224453)

That's a very good technical solution, but socially it can be foiled by an official-looking alert saying "failed to scan card, please do X instead".

And that's assuming the technical solution is deployed everywhere. I'm in the EU with one of those IDs, and I still had to upload photos of my passport and scan my face to open a bank account. The identification process even had its own app that I had to install.

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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by 9dev on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:09PM (#46224605)

But then again, should the EU follow up with a similar policy, it could mandate the use of these checks and prevent/penalize ID photos. I’m very optimistic here.

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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by zmmmmm on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:05PM (#46224548)

Exactly. I'd concede this point if I'd seen a giant public awareness campaign informing people which official sites to use and general safety awareness about it. I can tell you, literally nothing like that has happened. Not an insufficient effort at it - no effort, nothing. It's clear the people in charge are just head in the sand about this aspect of it.

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