In May 2023, posts dedicated to the struggle of the Australian authorities with anonymity on the Internet appeared in Telegram. It is claimed that for the use of social networks now you need a certificate of personality, and the police will get access to data. We decided to check if this is so.
In May, Russian Telegram channels wrote that in Australia the police will gain access to personal data of social networks. It was also argued that earlier the government ordered users to provide documents to use social networks. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Solovyov"(261,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Vladtude (18,000) and "Karelian balm | News"(11,000). Also, the news about this was previously published by the website of the television channel "Tsargrad".
In the posts where new rules are mentioned, a minute excerpt from the news of Australian television is also given, in which the reporter talks about the essence of the sentence.
This is a fragment of the news release of the TV channel 9newswhich was published in Facebook This Australian media back in April 2021. The reporter really talks about personal data and social networks, but clarifies that this is so far a proposal that has been received by the Permanent Committee on Social Policy and the Justice of the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament.
Such document And really exists. It is called the “study of home, family and sexual violence” and was transferred to the profile parliamentary committee in March 2021. One of the points (recommendation No. 30) says: “In order to register or maintain an existing account on the social network, users must be identified on a special platform using a 100-point system, just like in the case of a telephone number or when buying a SIM card”.
In Australia, exists identification system Personality, which is also used for individual online operations: in addition to the above cases, it is used, for example, to open a bank account via the Internet. This system Introduced for a long time, at the turn of the 1980-1990s, and its main purpose is the fight against fraud, primarily in the field of finance. Documents are divided into two categories, and each corresponds to a certain number of points.
Different departments and different states of Australia offer their list of documents, but the principle remains the same: the more important the document is, the more points. For example, in Queensland in the first category - driver’s license (60 points), birth certificate (50), passport (50), certificate of Australian citizenship (50) and Australian visa (40). In the second - marriage certificates (40) and the change of surname (40), as well as a medical insurance card (40). In total, you need to score 100 points, while at least one of the documents should relate to the first category.
But the main thing is that this system is not used for registration in social networks. A document submitted to the Committee on Social Policy and Justice was not supported by the government. This, in particular, was told by the representative of the Minister of Communications Michel Rowland in response to a request from a German factory project Correctiv. This information was confirmed Reuters and Rebecca Lewis, an employee of the Australian government commissions For Internet security issues. The idea of the authors of the document was that such identification would help to hold accountable for injuries in social networks. But critics They paid attention The fact that such requirements violate freedom of speech, and the effect of the innovation can be minimal.
As for the control that the Australian police allegedly received over data from users of social networks, this also does not fully correspond to reality. Reading LawIncluding encrypted messages, was accepted back in 2018 and has nothing to do with the history of user identification. Law enforcement officers receive the right to this in exceptional cases when it comes to the threat of national security.
Thus, in Australia there is still no law that would oblige to provide a passport or any other official documents when registering on social networks. A similar proposal was indeed received in the local parliament, but it did not receive approval by the government and was not framed as a bill.
Photo on the cover: Australian Foreign and Trade Ministry
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