In September, an Australian government committee asked for ideas on how to make it harder for minors to access online porn.

Now, another government body — the Department of Home Affairs — has submitted a response to that inquiry. Its totalitarian solution: start scanning porn viewers’ faces, and matching them up with government photos, to verify their ages.

Home Affairs — essentially the Aussie version of the United States’ Department of Homeland Security — is currently developing a Face Verification Service that would confirm a person’s identify by matching their face to a photo in a government identification document, such as a driver’s license.

In its one-page submission to the Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee, Home Affairs notes that the system “could assist in age verification, for example by preventing a minor from using their parent’s driver [license] to circumvent age verification controls.”

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