But, as you say, once a bad idea is suggested, it has a terrible tendency to reappear at a later date.

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"The Department of Home Affairs has suggested using face scans to confirm people's age before they watch online pornography and ..."

"The United Kingdom this month abandoned plans to introduce a nationwide age verification system for online pornography, after years of technical troubles and concerns from privacy campaigners."

"The University of ... Law Society said in countries where age verification for porn was enforced, effectiveness was limited with over four million domains and internet tools allowing users to circumvent controls."

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Edited by - LCF on 12/4/2019 1:53:52 PM

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Australia's Idiotic War On Porn Returns, This Time Using Facial Recognition

"For years now, governments around the world have attempted to block, filter, or otherwise restrict the public's access to porn. And for just as long those efforts have routinely and repeatedly fallen flat on their face. Whether it's the UK's bungled and incoherent plan to employ age-checks to restrict porn access, or Utah's seemingly endless efforts to fiter porn entirely, history is filled with examples of how trying to thwart porn simply doesn't work. Filters are easy to bypass and tend to cause more problems than they solve. Waging war on porn at scale alwaysends in wasted money and headaches."

From the comments...

Is the user uploading a facial image or image of a facial?

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