Age checks are here and increasing fast; the race to strike privacy balance is on

Any system for the online age checks that are being introduced for access to pornography and other online content will succeed only if it strikes an appropriate balance with user privacy. This is one of several key take-aways from the webinar held on Tuesday by Biometric Update and Goode Intelligence on “Age Verification: Lessons Learned from the UK.”

Legislators, regulators, technology providers and online platforms in the United Kingdom have spent more time and effort on putting measures in place …

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