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Offline Boomerang

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Online Safety Act now in effect for Australia
« on: December 11, 2025, 08:53:53 PM »
Australia now requires age verification for certain websites, so to access Substack for example I need to provide biometrics in the form of photos and some form of ID.

A nice way for them to build a list of potential dissidents, and a juicy target for hackers at the vendors who process the information.


https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/whats-on/online-safety-act
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/news/social-media-minimum-age-verification-law-and-digital-id
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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: Online Safety Act now in effect for Australia
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2025, 10:49:24 PM »
Quote from: Boomerang on December 11, 2025, 08:53:53 PM
Australia now requires age verification for certain websites, so to access Substack for example I need to provide biometrics in the form of photos and some form of ID.

A nice way for them to build a list of potential dissidents, and a juicy target for hackers at the vendors who process the information.


https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/whats-on/online-safety-act
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/news/social-media-minimum-age-verification-law-and-digital-id
Twitter gave me a notification about scanning a qr code to do some kind of verification in their app, i scanned the qr code to see what requirements they had but since i dont use the app (i use the site in browser) nothing happened. Also i can still post without verifying id so not sure lol.
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Offline Boomerang

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Re: Online Safety Act now in effect for Australia
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2025, 10:40:32 PM »
Quote from: AnthonyPadua on December 11, 2025, 10:49:24 PM
Twitter gave me a notification about scanning a qr code to do some kind of verification in their app, i scanned the qr code to see what requirements they had but since i dont use the app (i use the site in browser) nothing happened. Also i can still post without verifying id so not sure lol.

Interesting, I have the substack app, but I just checked my profile and there is no country setting on it. 

So I'll posit that Substack has logged my IP and geo-located my IP, maybe X is delaying the implementation, after the last court case with e-Safety?
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