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ASIO has been able to track you for decades since they have real-time metadata feeds from Telstra, Optus, NBN etc.

They have access to your location estimate, URLs of sites you've visited, people you talk via email/phone etc. And we know that this dataset is shared to the Five Eyes.

So if you are concerned about being tracked I would strongly recommend leaving Australia.

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It’s more about who has access to the data and how easily. Plus the potential of creating a massive target for hackers.

And now they’ll be able to see the groups you go to within pages, read comments, see what we write, etc etc. It also goes from being a defence capability to used for all sorts of things and eventually leaked.

It’s not bad enough to leave, better to engage with the politics and try to get some rights before it spreads further outwards

This is conspiracy theory thinking, why on earth would age verification give them access to all of this additional information?

In what way do you think they'll be able to verify your age reliably without you having to, yourself, "willingly", hand over your PII?

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