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There is a separate article https://www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g-s1-36142/australia-social-m... linked in the post. It says:

> amendments [...] bolster privacy protections. Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver's licenses, nor could they demand digital identification through a government system.

So I guess facial recognition it is. Or my personal guess, a government data feed on birth dates.

Any other solution is too stupid to discuss -- I would be stunned if it's possible to use facial recognition to differentiate a 15 y/o from a 16 y/o in anything approaching a reliable way.

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> Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver's licenses, nor could they demand digital identification through a government system.

This leaves a lot of room for bad acting. The data collector need not compel. They can have 3 methods available but have 2 be a hot mess of unreliability.

FacRec has unreliability baked in - increasingly so, the further from white ones skin is.