Does the UK Online Safety Bill “Break Encryption”?
LONDON – When the United Kingdon government announced Tuesday that the latest iteration of its “Online Safety Bill” had “passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become ...
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Age Verification Companies Seek Millions Over Abandoned UK Porn Block
Yet another reminder that trying to legislate porn blocks is never a good idea: Four companies who sank millions into the development of age-verification software for the British government—AgeChecked Ltd, ...
UK’s Age Verification Requirement ‘Delay’ Becomes Permanent
If you’ve followed the news about the United Kingdom’s plan to require adult websites to institute age-verification protocols, then you know the launch date for those requirements has been subject ...
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 ...
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 ...
Age Verification: Data Breaches Feared ‘Inevitable’
The BBC reported today that the Open Rights Group -- a grassroots, U.K.-based digital campaigning organization whose stated mission includes working to protect privacy and free speech rights online – ...
MaleGeneral: Next Level ‘Revenge Porn’ or Same Ol’ Jerks, Clickbait?
MaleGeneral (allegedly) takes the non-consensual posting of sexual images -- a.k.a. revenge porn -- to the next level. In addition to posting sexually explicit images, it asks users to help ...
For Pure Drama, Porn’s Got Nothing on the Scandal Sheets
LONDON – With the implementation of Britain’s Digital Economy Act 2017 looming (at some still-uncertain point in the future), privacy advocates and IT experts once again are warning the public about ...
U.K. Fear: ‘MindGeek Will Be Facebook of Age-Verification’
LONDON – Multinational adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek has become the boogeyman in the contentious U.K. debate about age-verification and internet porn. Beginning in April 2018, adult websites must verify all ...
UK Approaches Orwellian Age Verification Scheme
LONDON – Under the familiar guise of “protecting children,” the U.K. government is considering a requirement that all adults who wish to view porn online acquire what the British media ...
