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"The Australian government has announced a A$6.5 million trial of “age
assurance” technology to restrict minors’ access to pornography. It’s part of a
$1 billion package to address gendered violence. And it now comes alongside a
proposal to ban people under 16 from social media.
The government will consider various types of “age assurance” methods, such as
matching drivers’ licences, credit cards or passports against government
databases. It may also explore analysing biometric information (such as faces,
fingerprints or voices), and profiling online behaviour (like username,
browsing history and cookie data). Each has different privacy risks.
While the government refers to these tools as “age assurance”, many of them are
more accurately called “age estimation”.
Published in
Big Data and Society, our new study into one common facial age
estimation tool shows such technologies are unreliable, and have a racial and
gender bias.
They are also undesirable – they make pornography a political scapegoat for
gendered violence and divert resources from evidence-based strategies that can
actually help."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
