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How will age verification for porn work and what about privacy?
Anyone in the UK wanting to access online porn will soon have to undergo more rigorous age checks.
The Online Safety Act says sites must make it harder for under-18s to see explicit material - and major adult websites have confirmed they will introduce advanced age checks by 25 July. Media regulator Ofcom estimates 14 million people watch online pornography - and concerns have been raised about the privacy and security implications of them having to undergo more robust identity checks. The 5RightsFoundation - an online child safety charity - said credit card checks, along with the photo identification and digital identity verification methods, offered high levels of assurance especially when the data was well protected, but "carry significant privacy risks if not designed and managed appropriately".
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