It’s almost laughable that these two stories happened so close to one another. The Australian government has just announced a pilot program to test an online age verification system
And then, just hours later, it was reported that law enforcement is investigating an apparent breach of club and bar patrons’ personal data, which the venues are required to collect by law for people entering such establishments.
When we talk about the privacy and data risks of age verification, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about. When you’re collecting that much sensitive private data, you become a target.
Working late were you? Well according to this leaked record you were at the pub from 4 pm till 9 pm every week day, 10 am on Thursday!
Wait this is something my boss would say
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Carry on
Johnson, I’m gonna need that report on my desk by 9am Monday morning, in triplicate and properly color coded this time… Not having a repeat of last month.