UK porn age checks raise privacy concerns
Digital rights groups say more robust age verification requirements lack transparency. …
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The proposed amendments will mean user-to-user platforms, such as social media sites, that allow pornographic content will have to use age-checking technologies that are “highly effective” in identifying whether a user is a child or not – for example, estimating someone’s age from a selfie.