Pornhub per introdurre controlli di età “approvati dal governo” nel Regno Unito
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2lz5vl6o
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Pornhub per introdurre controlli di età “approvati dal governo” nel Regno Unito
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2lz5vl6o
di ConsciousStop
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Pornhub and a number of other major adult websites have confirmed they will introduce enhanced age checks for users from next month.
Parent company Aylo says it is bringing in “government approved age assurance methods” but has not yet revealed how it will require users to prove they are over 18.
Regulator Ofcom has previously said simply clicking a button, which is all the adult site currently requires, is not enough.
Ofcom said the changes would “bring pornography into line with how we treat adult services in the real world.”
The Online Safety Act requires adult sites to introduce “robust” age checking techniques by this summer.
Approved measures include demanding photo ID or running credit card checks before users can view sexually explicit material.
“Society has long protected youngsters from products that aren’t suitable for them, from alcohol to smoking or gambling,” said Oliver Griffiths, Ofcom’s group director of online safety, in a statement. “For too long children have been only a click away from harmful pornography online.” Mr Griffiths said assurances from Aylo and several other porn providers, including Stripchat and Streamate, regarding the introduction of new age checks showed “change is happening”.
The regulator said its recent research indicated 8% of children aged 8-14 in the UK had visited an online porn site or app over a 28-day period. This included about 3% of eight to nine year olds, its survey suggests.
“We know that highly effective age assurance can play a vital role in protecting young users from accessing harmful and inappropriate material on social media and other platforms,” said Rani Govender, policy manager for child safety online at the NSPCC. “It is time tech companies take responsibility for ensuring children have safe, age-appropriate experiences online, and we welcome the progress that Ofcom are making in this space.”
Pornhub is the most visited porn site in the UK and around the world, according to data from Similarweb, external.
It has been under scrutiny by regulators worldwide over its measures to prevent children accessing adult content.
The European Commission announced an investigation into Pornhub, along with two other adult platforms, at the end of May.
In the UK, Ofcom is probing several adult sites it believes may be failing to abide by its child safety rules.
Aylo’s vice president of brand and community Alex Kekesi said Ofcom presented a variety of flexible methods of age assurance that were less intrusive than those it had seen in other jurisdictions.
“Ofcom recognises the scale of the challenge ahead and is approaching it with thorough consideration,” she said. The regulator’s model is “the most robust in terms of actual and meaningful protection we’ve seen to date,” she added. “When governments and regulators engage with industry in good faith, the outcome is not just better compliance, it’s smarter, more effective solutions”.
Aylo said it would introduce the new methods to check user ages on its sites by 25 July, but so far has not spelt out which technique for verifying users’ ages it will use.
Under the Online Safety Act, providers of platforms where children could encounter porn and harmful content must have measures in place to stop them accessing it.
The Act requires this to take place chiefly through the use of technology that is “highly effective” in determining whether a user is 18.
Ofcom said in January, external this could include solutions such as photo ID matching, digital identity services or facial age estimation.
Porn providers that fail to meet the Act’s requirements could face enforcement action such as huge fines.
“Oi mate, do you have a liocense for that wank?”
Just another way to harvest data
Can I have a wank pwease Keir 👉👈🥺
How’s this different to the French one which PH opposed so strongly?
From Cameron to starmer there won’t be any waking on their watch ok maybe a little because they themselves are wankers.
⚠ You have reached your daily wank limit of 12 sessions, please wait 24 hours before you start your next session ⚠
Like there aren’t thousands of other corn platforms on the web…
Credit card and ID check oh what a great idea that is.
How safe are your websites again?
2017 wasn’t there a breach at Pornhub?
Yes I am definitely going to give you my ID and Credit card
How stupid do you guys think I am?
Quit eu. Grow increasingly authoritarian and limit peoples freedom
I remember when we used to have freedom. That was a great time to be alive.
You can’t do this to me! I STARTED this wank! You KNOW how much I sacrificed!”
How bout age-checking the content you allow first?
VPN says what?
Pornhub is a bitch. Xvideos is a lovely whore
Invasion of privacy. Parents have total responsibility to prevent their kids from accessing harmful material.
These days, right, these days you can’t even crank one out without being arrested and thrown in jail
Police: HE’S GRABBING HIS PENIS
Eh so what? Pornhub has shit content anyway
Look like VPN will gain new clients again. What a useless law
This’ll definitely work
They won’t stop a porn,it will be social media next and more and more until you need a government issued digital id to do anything online
We’re never beating the fucking license allegations oh my god
Games gone
The gateway to censoring the internet has been opened. /s
The govermnent wants its hand on your cock!
Petition to introduce this for social media as well. Unfortunately it’s not just porn that rots children’s brains it’s all those “influencers” and brainrot and the Andrew Tates on those platforms as well
Lol so the ID of a few children and a bunch of old men will be stolen whilst everyone else uses a VPN or another website.
And then, they just decided to pull out (lol) of France rather than enforcing similar regulations.
You could end up getting a stiff sentence for wanking without Kier’s permission.
VPN populatrity is about to skyrocket.
VPN sales skyrocket
Wow, that looks advanced. I wonder what prevents kids from pressing the wrong button.
There’s just so many ways to watch porn.. Like I’m on fucking reddit ffs, who still bothers to go to the hub.
new uk law: you have to give the government all your card info and your ID and your actual home adress and your workplace adress to be able to jork it for 5 seconds (but only to videos of ugly fat chicks)
The fact that the UK doesn’t have identity cards nor national digital identity schemes comparable to various of the EU member countries is, counter-intuitively, why age verification in the UK has the potential to be much worse for privacy and user protection.
Instead of having a centralised zero-knowledge proof system, which requires a widely available and widely used digital identity plus a network of trusted third party verifiers overseen by national agencies, OFCOM has listed some methods that they think can be effectively used to assess whether a user is of legal age or not.
In my opinion, most of the method listed (although they require other criteria to be met in order to be approved) are terrible and they are **much** worse for privacy that if the UK were to have a national identity card system and a national digital identity system. Here’s a list:
* Asking a bank for proof of the user’s legal age
* Taking the user’s photo ID scans and comparing it to the user’s photo taken when access is requested
* Facial age estimation (???)
* Mobile network operator checks (they have a system to track whether the user has asked to remove a mandatory content filter that is opt-out)
* Credit card checks
* E-mail based estimation (asking other companies if the same e-mail has signed up for 18+ only services, like some financial services)
* Digital identity services
To me all of these are bad or sub-optimal except the last one (probably the one that is less adopted and/or will be implemented by less sites), while the EU Commission is working on a zero-knowledge proof that can ensure that the only thing shared by the user to the porn sites is a certified proof of whether they’re of legal age or not. If well planned and well supported the EU system can be much better.