Porn Sites Must Add Robust Age Verification Under New UK Law

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(Pocket-lint) – The UK government must introduce new legislation to force porn websites to use genuine age verification measures if they want to operate in the UK.

Right now, many just have a simple pop-up asking if a user is 18 or older, but one click is all it takes to display meaningful content afterwards.

The new law, part of the government’s forthcoming online safety bill, will ban sites from being viewed in the UK unless they use an age verification method, such as credit card entry or third-party verification service.

This is to protect children from accessing inappropriate images and videos, he says.

The Online Safety Bill will be finalized and presented to Parliament in the “coming months”, says the BBC. It will then require a majority vote of MPs to become law.

This is not the first time that the government has proposed similar measures. In the early 2010s, he even considered completely ban Internet pornography in the UK with the idea that ISPs would block porn sites at source, much like they do with torrent download URLs, like Pirate Bay.

However, this was never widely supported and was eventually overturned.

On the new proposals, Digital Economy Minister Chris Philp said: “Parents deserve peace of mind because their children are protected online from the things no child should see.”

Written by Rik Henderson.