Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

If anyone’s keen, feel free to give a live run-down of anything interesting in this thread.

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  • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zoneM
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    28 days ago

    Well, a VPN fakes your country, and the law only applies in Australia. Also, it is an unenforceable law anyways so I doubt it would do much

    • Fuse@infosec.exchange
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      @eatham

      Yes, but Social Media apps can derive location data through other means, including time zone and language settings, visible WiFi Access Points, not to mention GPS.

      The Libs passed the legislation because they’re corrupt.
      Labor passed it because they’re incompetent.

      Either way, it’s likely that the AustGov will be the gatekeepers of ‘onboarding’ and re-verification of existing users.

      It’s a disgrace.

      @Aussiemandeus