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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK
Microsoft is adding age verification to accounts in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act, and plans to expand the feature to other regions.
Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests it'll come to other countries, too. The UK's Online Safety Act was signed in to law in 2023 to ban nonconsensual deepfake porn and create rules preventing children from being exposed to adult content. As regulators have defined ways companies can comply with the law, implementing an age verification system has become the solution most platforms that host adult content have settled on.
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