By 25 July, all sites and apps that allow pornography – whether they are dedicated adult sites or social media, search or gaming services – must use highly effective age checks to ensure children are not normally able to encounter it. Online firms who publish their own pornography are already required to protect children from it, and thousands of sites have already introduced robust age checks in response.
Major porn providers operating in the UK have confirmed to Ofcom that they will introduce effective checks by next month’s deadline in order to comply with the new rules. They include PornHub, the most-visited pornographic service in the UK. Other services who are happy to be named at this stage include BoyfriendTV, Cam4, FrolicMe, inxxx, Jerkmate, LiveHDCams, MyDirtyHobby, RedTube, Streamate, Stripchat, Tube8, and YouPorn. This represents a broad range of pornography services accessed in the UK.
Monitoring compliance with these new duties is a priority for Ofcom. If any company fails to comply with its new duties, Ofcom can impose fines and – in very serious cases – apply for a court order to prevent the site or app from being available in the UK. As part of our work enforcing the Online Safety Act, we have already launched investigations into four porn providers and won’t hesitate to take further action from July.
Oh no. Some hackers hacked out database and released all the ID information on high profile people. Oh such whoopsie, we made.
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I’m sure the most rigorous of data safety standards will be followed. After all they’re being forced to do this I’m sure they won’t take the cheapest possible route. Oh definitely not.
Depends entirely on how it’s implemented, because the website doesn’t need to know who you are, only verify that you are over 18. Which can be done reasonably securely - you generate a random ID on a secure service (e.g here in Finland, we use our online banking stuff for official verification purposes), give that ID to the website, and the only communication between the two of them is “Is id 123 valid and an adult? Yes/No”.
Now, if that “secure service”, most likely a government contract done as cheaply as possible turns out not to be, and they keep logs linking those IDs to the URLs requesting verification, then the entire thing goes belly up.
So your bank now knows you accessed certain websites. And likely one or more middleware services. And you are okay with that?
Was an example of the security, not who is running the service. But I mean, guess who knows if you pay for OnlyFans or stuff like that?
Your bank.And like I said, it’s only really secure if the service doesn’t keep a database of logs connecting the two.
The bank doesn’t know what people pay for, or who it goes to, they just know what account you paid into. They would have to go through and verify who owns the account and that’s not an automatic process. Finding out the actual person or company behind an account requires effort, so unless there’s some investigation that involves that bank account, they won’t have that information.
🤡🤡🤡Lmao what? The amount of men calling up for some transaction error and I need to bring their account up and we can see EVERYTHING, the tinder premium subscriptions, the balding pills, the only fans. There’s full access to the whole bank statements up until the account creation at the click of a button
There’s been countless cases of bank tellers being fired for looking up their friends and exes to look up what is in their banks
No, come on, don’t be disingenuous, you know that’s not what I meant.
If I pay something to, Acme financial services LLC, you have no idea what that really is. They could make boxes, sports equipment, that could be an escort agency, you don’t know. Pretty much every adult store is not going to have Sex Toys R Us, as their account name.
Zero Knowledge is more secure. Government signs a credential confirming date of birth and gives that to the citizen.
Citizen can then use that to create a proof they were born before date X. Verifier only sees the proof and the Government signature.
No need to trust 3rd party websites.
The problem there is that requires the government to do some of the work, and they don’t want to. They want to sell this to the public as them being tough, but they definitely don’t want it to cost any money.
This will be implemented in the most sketchy short-sighted way possible, I guarantee it
I would never touch any of these telemetry websites anymore because this is definitely going to be used to fingerprint you.
I was basically after that same concept - create that credential, and have the website only verify it’s legit and nothing else.
I think my example of how it’s currently done for basically everything in Finland just confused people, I wasn’t suggesting every country implements adult age checks with their banks.
I seriously feel this. I’ve found a little site that dgaf what country or state you’re in. I use a VPN if I want a change.
don’t the uk have a history of straight up putting porn in print magazines and on free television every day?
Page 3 of the sun newspaper was the famous one for just having a topless women emblazoned on it
To Americans, tits may be considered porn. To a good chunk of the rest of the world, it’s not as pornographic.
Nudity isn’t always pornographic or sexual depending on the context. But in this context it absolutely is. The Sun put tits there to sexually arouse readers, that was the point.
To Brits it is pornographic.
Even having a girl as young as 16 on there, which I don’t think was legal (age of consent is 16 in the UK but I don’t think that extends to pornography).
The Sun only stopped it in the last 15 years.
So people too young or too privacy conscious to use those major platforms will move to nicher porn sites. Doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all… /s
So this will affect Reddit and Lemmy too, presumably?
It already has. Lemmy.zip if unavailable to users (of the admins own volition as they don’t have the capability to comply) in the Uk because of the law
Say it with me folks! VPN!
V! P! N!
I’m disappointed that Pornhub is apparently capitulating instead of blocking access entirely in protest, like they’ve done in other jurisdictions.
They only really block access when there isn’t an official way to validate. Iirc, Louisiana did this over a year ago and pirnhub is doing age verification there now.
I think they realized that they won’t get the jurisdiction to bend on this one, and the general response from UK government will be “good riddance to bad rubbish”.
If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.
And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.
Headline should have been: pornsites gave no spunk. Screw the government, and just plug the whole country. Though we’ll no longer have easy access various VPNs will still allow us to reach around with IP protection, just like consuming BBC service without a license. Cum on.
VPN subs will be up and UK viewership will be nonexistent
mastodon has porn and you don’t even need an account to use search. also, this will just drive people to use sketchy sites that won’t follow the rules.
You can literally find porn on search engines. Google images is a bit restrictive but Bing, Duckduckgo etc will straight up show porn in the image or video searches.
Are they going to add a box to enter your age like on Steam that you immediately roll back to 1st January 1901?
6/9/1969…every time
They did this in Florida. They want you to submit a picture of yourself and your photo ID to a porn website
So what privacy will I have to give up?
Actually I’m in Canada so I’m probably safe anyway.
I mean… I don’t watch porn so this doesn’t affect my anyway…
It’s tied to your account on the website. So it’s tied to all of your viewing activity. It could be leaked or compromised. It could be subpoenaed. It could be purchased.
Some of these ham fisted age verification checks ask you to upload photos of your government ID
“PrOtEcT ThE ChiLdReN! 👆🏻🥴”
I can not hear that anymore!
Children need awareness, rather than shielding, concealment and tabooing.
Amen. It’s like they think that somehow it is better to only encounter the world when you are in college and alone.
silver lining, the kinks of the future are gonna be sooo fucked up.
“I showed you my elbow, pls respond 🥺”
So much for being better than the US. Welcome to the downfall of modern society UK.
It’s been happening for decades.
Indeed, it has been the same here.
And when this measure fails to protect children and, instead, becomes a data security nightmare, another scheme will be proposed to further erode the freedoms the web brings.
I look forward to hearing about the workarounds kids find.
I look forward to hearing about the workarounds kids find.
Look no further, the workaround is the humble VPN. The kids that found that work around are 50+ now lmao
You don’t even need a VPN. Only the legit sites will play ball. Porn will still be there.
