Bruce DavieSeems like a good day to revisit this post about privacy-preserving age verification. (tl;dr -> you can't have it) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/19/privacy%E2%80%91preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with-reality/
Here is the report on Australia's age assurance trial. I have only skimmed it but the headline conclusions, starting with "Age assurance can be done in Australia privately, efficiently and effectively" are patent crap, contradicted by the data in the report and the woeful history of breaches of private data collected by large companies. https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/age-assurance-technology-trial-final-report
Here’s a deeper dive by someone with more tolerance for BS than I have, and it’s consistent with my reading of the report: https://eftm.com/2025/09/social-media-ban-age-assurance-doesnt-work-but-the-australian-government-doesnt-want-you-to-know-that-266177
