The arrangement of thecom has stated that all porn websites operating in the UK must take “very effective” age -effective measures over the next month. The move is designed to provide significantly more protection for children online.
Major adult content providers, including Pornhub, Stripchat and Jerkmate, have agreed to reinforced measures. These new requirements are part of the online safety law (OSA), not only on adult sites but also on social media, search and game services that host adult materials.
Any company that fails to comply with new age verification investigations by July 25 is subject to severe penalties. Non -consistent services can be exposed to significant penalties or are not even accessible through court order in the UK and reinforce the regulator’s commitment to implement new standards.
The operating systems also need to ensure that it does not endanger the privacy of adults or prevent them from accessing legal content.
Age guarantee methods can include credit card checks, open bank estimation or face age to confirm or guess how many years.
“How to implement these solutions in practice” will decide whether it is in accordance with OSA, the regulator said.
This after the new research from thecom showed that 8 % of the eight to 14 years in the UK visited an online porn site or app on smartphones, tablets or computers in a month.
Earlier this month, Oscom announced that after receiving complaints about illegal activity and possible sharing of the Freedom Child’s images, a study of 4chan, a porn site operator and several file sharing systems due to no suspected protection for children.
The report said that none of the services responded to their legal information requests.
“The community has long protected young people from products that are not suitable for them, from alcohol to smoking or gambling,” said Oliver Griffiths, director of the online safety group of
“But for very long, children have only used harmful harmful online with only one click,” she said.
“Now, the change is happening.
“These age checks, pornographic by dealing with adult services in the real world, without compromising and endangering and being more than 18 privacy.”
A report that seeks to use and effectiveness of age guarantees will be published next year by Ofcom.
Charities welcomed the declaration, but said the regulator needed to perform properly or even more.
“Age -confirmation measures that prevent children from accessing pornography have long been delayed,” the Kenns team, an online care policy, which has been working for age for almost a decade, said.
“The use of porn is associated with sexual harassment in schools and violent sexual offenses. Studies also show its harmful impact on relationships and mental health.
“It is very important to get this right.”
“It is time for technology companies to ensure safe and age -tailing experiences online, and we welcome the advances of thecoming of this space,” Rani Govender, NSPCC, said.
“To do this, the operating systems must also effectively apply their minimum age constraints.
“There is currently a gap in the laws that the government has to pay to ensure that off can be accountable for companies to support young children online.”
