What Say You, AgeID – Pornhub’s In-House Age Verification Tool?
In March of this year, Engadget posited that Pornhub could become the de facto age verification gatekeeper for adult content in the U.K. via its age verification tool, AgeID. Per ...
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Study: Internet Content Filters “Not an Effective Intervention”
A new paper by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute calls into question the effectiveness of internet content filters, stating that filters are "not an effective intervention to protect young ...
Age Verification: Coming Soon to an Adult Industry Near You?
With a government-mandated system pending in the UK, age verification is back on the mind of the adult industry. Will the U.S. government try to impose a similar requirement here? ...
Study: Fewer Minors Unintentionally Viewing Online Porn
Anti-porn activists often cite minors' unwanted exposure to online pornography as a factor in favor of establishing tighter regulation of online content. A recent meta-study suggests the rate of such ...
UK Media: 16-Digit “Porn Pass” Codes To Be Sold By Retailers
LONDON – As part of the UK’s upcoming age-verification scheme to prevent minors from accessing online porn, a 16-digit “porn pass” code will be made available for purchase by “newsagents ...
CCBill Partners with AVSecure for Age Verification Services
Tempe, AZ – Global Payments-as-a-Service platform CCBill recently announced that leading age verification solution AVSecure has joined the CCBill Integration Partners marketplace. This partnership offers CCBill merchants with a worldwide solution to comply with the ...
Opinion: Forced Age Verification Was, And Is, A Troubling Idea
LONDON -- As talk of “age verification” heats up, now might be a good time to remember that “disruptive” technologies can sometimes benefit only the disruptor. The idea of disrupting ...
Will Delayed Rollout Benefit UK’s Age-Verification Scheme?
LONDON – On your marks, get set…. wait indefinitely. That’s the position adult businesses, website operators and site users find themselves in with respect to the UK’s new age-verification requirements ...
Of Devils, Details, Deadlines and the DEA
LONDON – I remember sitting down with a software developer in early 2005 to look at a 2257-compliance software solution he had written. I was running a sizeable affiliate program ...
FSC Formalizes Age-Verification Best Practices
LOS ANGELES – The adult industry’s age-verification best-practices guidelines, in unwritten, informal form, precede the U.S. federal government’s recordkeeping regulations mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and 2257A. While the ...
