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 undertake provably “effective measures” to ensure viewers are over 18.

In addition, the Bill claims that top tech executives will be held “personally responsible” for keeping children safe.

The Bill’s fresh push for “a new higher standard” of age verification came as part of an “eleventh-hour amendment” to the Bill, which has been actively discussed since it was first …

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