UK passes Online Safety Bill, paving the way to biometric age verification
After years of heated debates and delays, Britain has passed its Online Safety Bill, which could introduce more age verification…
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Age verification debates continue in UK, Australia
Kids as young as seven are accessing age-restricted items such as weapons, alcohol and vapes in the United Kingdom, digital…
Anti-porn age verification for minors in UK and US attracts data protection criticism
The UK’s Online Safety Bill, is now set to force all platforms hosting pornographic material operating in the UK to…
UK online content bill could quietly enable facial recognition
Research reportedly shows that the inclusion of software as part of the UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill could be used…
Age verification for porn access supported across UK electorate, finds poll
A survey for right-leaning TV news channel GB News finds that 78 percent of the British public support age verification…
What business needs to know about age ID verification as regulators step up legislation
By Liudas Kanapienis, CEO and co-founder of Ondato From the first of January this year, age checks for people visiting…
Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security…
8.6M fake ID users in UK: GBG report
Over eight million people in the UK have taken advantage of fake, fraudulent or someone else’s identity to access goods,…
Jail time for UK tech bosses if they fail to keep children safe online
The UK’s Online Safety Bill evades defeat in its third reading in Parliament after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surrenders to…
Children, interoperability, billion-dollar fines and browser biometrics: the Online Safety Bill
The UK government’s effectively crowd-sourced draft Online Safety Bill has managed yet another twist. Gone is the provision to regulate…
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