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As porn sites apply new age checks, will users hand over personal ID?
All websites hosting pornography will have to check the age of their users from Friday.
Adults wanting to access explicit material should experience a significant change in how they use the internet - while websites that ignore the new laws could be fined up to £18m, or 10% of worldwide revenue. When BBC News wrote about the seven methods of age verification adult websites may use in the UK and the companies who may be employed to do it, one reader comment resonated with many others. Facial age estimation typically uses liveness checks to stop people using photos, and email methods usually ask for a code to be retrieved from the user's mailbox, experts told the BBC.
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