A U.Ok. regulation requiring that pornography web sites confirm the age of their customers took impact Friday.
The BBC reports that round 6,000 porn websites have stated they’ll begin verifying customers’ ages to adjust to the Online Safety Act, though at the least one main website was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning.
The regulation additionally requires that online platforms stop youngsters from being uncovered to dangerous content material, which is why websites like Reddit, Bluesky, X, and Grindr have additionally begun asking customers within the U.Ok. to confirm their age by means together with selfies or government-issued IDs.
This is only one of plenty of new youngster safety legal guidelines that would normalize online age checks globally, according to Wired. The method has been criticized by groups such because the Digital Frontier Basis as a risk to online privateness and anonymity — certainly, it’s value noting that in a latest breach of the courting security app Tea, lots of the affected pictures have been selfies and digital IDs uploaded for account verification.
Some web customers could attempt to get round age checks through the use of faux IDs, selfies of online game characters, or VPNs.
