Starting today, millions Adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to demonstrate that they are more than 18 years old. Based on the new children’s safety laws that enter into force, self-senlation control boxes that allow anyone to request adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by scanning for the age face, credit loads, credit loads, credit card controls, and more. Some of the largest porn websites – including pornhub and youporn – said they will do it comply with The new rules. And social media sites such as Bluesky, Reddit, Discord, Macindr ex They are introducing age checks in the United Kingdom to prevent children from seeing harmful content.
In the end, however, it is not only the British who see these changes. All over the world, a new wave of minors protection laws is forcing a profound change that could normalize the rigorous age controls in a broad sense through the web. Some of the measures are designed to specifically block minors to access the material for adults, while others have the purpose of preventing children from using social media platforms or accessing harmful content. In the United Kingdom, age controls are now requested by websites and apps that host porn content, self -harm, suicide and eating disorders.
Protecting children online is a consequential and urgent question, but the supporters of privacy and human rights have long warned that although they can be well intentioned, age controls introduce a series of language and surveillance problems that could ultimately online snow ball.
“The age verifies prevents people’s ability from anonymously accessing online information,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, researcher of policies at Stanford University. “This includes information to which adults have every right to access, but it may not want no one else to know to consume – as pornography – as well as the information to which children want to access but that for political reasons are considered inappropriate for them, as accurate information on sex, reproductive health information and LGBTQ content.”
The efforts that have reached the last decade to introduce strong online age checks recently gained traction. Last month, the United States Supreme Court paved the way for states to request porn websites to verify that visitors have at least 18 years old using age verification technologies. Pornhub, for example, has already blocked access to visitors in at least 20 states since the laws have been approved. In the meantime, The courts in France have ruled Last week that porn sites can control user age. Ireland has implemented age -control laws for Websites Video This week. The European Commission is Test an age verification app. And in December, The rigorous prohibition of Australia social media For children under the age of 16, they will take effect, introducing checks for Social media and people have access to search engines.
“If people choose not to access [to search engines] To avoid the age guarantee checks, this could have a large impact on aerodynamic and integrated ways looking for information online, “says Lisa Data, a professor of information sciences at the RMIT University in Australia who has followed the control policies of the age of the country closely.” It will also influence the level of privacy that people have been predictable from being able to search freely, which could change as and in which they are looking for information. “.
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Although the recent wave of judicial decisions and age legislation are new, they have requested more platforms and online services some form of age that controls for years. The British company of verification of the Yoti age, which works on multiple digital identity technologies including Face scan to estimate agesHe claims to have made more than 850 million age checks and completes over 1 million per day. “The brands all over the world in different sectors use this technology, including social media, games, adults, meetings, retail and vapors for sale,” said a YouTi spokesman in Wired in one and -mail.
Age verification mechanisms are available in several forms. The United Kingdom on online safety, which is supervised by Dicom communications regulatorlists seven “highly effective“Approaches that websites can use. Generally websites will use third -party companies of the growing age warranty industry rather than directly control yourself.
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