The Online Safety Act mandates that UK adult websites implement advanced age verification to restrict under-18s from accessing explicit material by July 25. Approximately 14 million individuals in the UK watch online pornography, prompting privacy and security concerns regarding identity checks. Age verification firms emphasize that they do not retain data or record accessed content. Various age verification methods, including credit card and identification checks, are recommended by Ofcom to balance safety and privacy for users.
"The only non-hackable database is no database at all," says Iain Corby, of the Age Verification Providers Association.
"No personal data gets passed on to an adult platform in any way. It is simply a yes or no as to answering a question: is this individual over 18?", said Andy Lulam, Verifymy's chief operating officer.
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