The UK's communications regulator has published guidance for website operators aimed at preventing under-18s from accessing ...

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Regulator Ofcom said this made it near impossible for consumers to accurately estimate what they would pay and prevented Brits from shopping around and comparing deals from different providers.

Ofcom’s guidance said services which allow pornography or other adult content will be required to introduce age assurance tools, for example photo ID matching, facial age estimation or credit ...

Children will be prevented from encountering adult content and protected from other types of harmful content under Ofcom’s new industry guidance which sets out how it expects sites and apps to ...

Websites that host pornographic or other harmful content must have "robust" age verification in place for UK users by July at the latest, Ofcom has said. In a new round of guidance ahead of the ...