Ofcom begins rolling out age assurance guidance for UK businesses, Yoti pans the pace

The regulator tasked with ensuring websites comply with the UK’s new rules for online age assurance and protections for minors has published draft guidance for businesses on how to meet their obligations.

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, is best known for being the body people complain to when something on television breaches the standards of public decency. Ofcom is also responsible for enforcing the Online Safety Act (known prior to passage as the Online Safety Bill), which incudes age verification …

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