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No porn for you, UK: Online Safety Act now requires age and ID checks on all adult sites
The rules, designed to protect children from exposure to harmful content online, require sites that publish or display pornographic content to have rigorous age-verification systems in place....
The Online Safety Act's enforcement has expanded, introducing a broad range of rules that includes mandatory effective age-checking systems for pornography websites, which usually means handing over selfies or government IDs. Some smaller sites are expected to ignore the rules over fear that they will lose too many visitors who are unwilling to hand over any personal details – there are also the added costs to consider. Despite promises that third-party age-verification companies will not retain users' data or be able to see the pages they visit, many people are unwilling to take the risk that their hentai foot fetish (for example) will be exposed.
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