Ofcom reports positive engagement on porn site age assurance
A number of providers of online pornography have implemented age assurance measured in line with the UK’s Online Safety Act….
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Mistake on threshold for facial age estimation costs OnlyFans parent $1.4M
OnlyFans parent Fenix International Limited has been fined 1.05 million pounds (approximately US$1.36 million) by a UK regulator for failing…
UK Online Safety Act passes first enforcement deadline, threatening big fines
One of the main reasons regulations are not especially popular among ambitious CEOs is that they can cost money. This…
Age verification of performers, device-level controls could improve UK porn controls
The UK needs to be ready to police content creation more stringently and alter the way age assurance is applied…
Email address age assurance is private, compliant and simple: VerifyMy, Yoti
Email is the technology that never dies, and now it has a use case for age estimation. Both VerifyMy and…
Start assessments now and consider age assurance ‘robustness’: Ofcom
Ofcom is readying for enforcement an age assurance with a series of stakeholder engagements, and took 3 days to discuss…
Watch: Navigating the UK’s Online Safety Act – choosing the right age verification tech
With the UK’s Online Safety Act coming into force this July, businesses must implement robust age verification (AV) measures to…
Yoti responds to Ofcom’s guidance on age checks for porn sites
While the age assurance sector has welcomed Ofcom’s newly published guidance on highly effective age assurance for adult content sites,…
Ofcom publishes highly anticipated age assurance statement
Ofcom has published its Age Assurance and Children’s Access Statement. The much-anticipated statement includes guidance on “highly effective age assurance”…
Age assurance legislation drives talk on how to create an age-aware internet
There are few hotter topics in biometrics and regulatory circles right now than the issue of age assurance as a…
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