OAIC has provided guidance on the privacy obligations for teen socmed ban age checks. They're much clearer and more detailed than anything eSafety has provided, once again demonstrating that OAIC is a place filled with serious grownups doing real work, not children playing dressups like some other agencies I could mention.
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I note that the privacy requirements are pretty onerous, which in some ways is good. But it shows that people are right that small, low-risk platforms are disproportionately affected by this kind of blanket "no teens allowed" ban, like we said all along, despite the mendacious protestations of certain proponents of this nonsense.
All this because you don't want to pass better privacy legislation that might make surveillance capitalism slightly less profitable. Or have to wrestle with the complexities of regulating speech.
The entire history of regulating the Internet in Australia is refusing to do the hard work necessary and doing some lazy thing that makes everything worse every couple of years.
You fucked up a reasonable Broadcasting Services Act is what you did. Look at it, it's got anxiety.
And depression.
And multiple-personality disorder.
And PTSD.
