Ofcom floats age verification crackdown for UK adult sites
Under new Ofcom rules, pornography websites, starting with pay sites, will have to show how they are protecting underage ...
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Porn access to be restricted to people who look at least 25 under new rules
People wishing to access porn will have to look at least 25 years old under new Ofcom rules. All platforms – from social media giants to ... services blocked in the UK. Ofcom has set out the ...
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Online Safety Act: Websites hosting pornographic content must have 'robust' age verification for UK users by July, Ofcom says
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 ... such as social media, which allow ...
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Ofcom Begin Process of Imposing Age Verification on UK Internet Sites
The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today moved forward with implementation of the government's tedious new ...
Why UK trade bodies are up in arms about changes to less healthy food ad restrictions
Isba, the Ad Association and the IAB UK are all pushing back on the latest amendments, which would prohibit brand and product ...
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'Damaging' videos pushed to children that fuel 'depressive state' may face ban
After The i Paper's investigation into harmful videos being pushed to 13-year olds on TikTok, the media watchdog Ofcom is ...
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Pornhub to introduce major restriction for anyone wanting to access website
Ofcom has urged Pornhub to start introducing age check verifications immediately with a hard deadline of July 2025 ...
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UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom Publishes First Codes of Practice
The first binding Codes of Practice under the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA ... revenue or 18 million pounds (whichever is greater). Ofcom has been clear that it will not be pulling any ...
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U.K. said to weigh facial recognition tech to keep kids away from social media
According to Ofcom estimates, around 60% of children aged 8-11 years - about 1.6M kids - in the U.K. have social media accounts despite the apps having a minimum 13-year age limit. And a third of ...
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Social media firms set to use facial recognition to check kids' ages under Ofcom plans
As many as 60% of eight to 11-year-olds have social media profiles, according to Ofcom’s estimates. It is despite apps like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat having age restrictions of 13 ...