The government plans to introduce legislation to enforce a minimum age for access to social media, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. It’s all a little vague at this point — no age limit has been flagged and won’t be until a trial of “age-verification technology” has been completed.
The government getting access to yet more personal information? What could go wrong? Oh, that’s right, the following could go wrong:
Data breaches a-plenty
Government data breaches, hacks and just plain screw-ups with personal data have peppered the past decade in Australia.
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