18 JUL

UK to implement age-verification system for porn sites

The wobbly, squabbling, minority Tory government—propped up by Northern Ireland’s DUP—has laid before MPs its first commencement order for the recently passed Digital Economy Act, in which it confirmed that an age checker system for access to porn sites will be brought in next spring.

“We have taken steps to implement the new age verification requirement for online pornography as part of our continuing work to make the Internet safer,” said digital minister Matt Hancock. “The new scheme is complex and will not be fully in place until April 2018, but today we are bringing into force powers to designate the regulator and powers to allow guidance to be issued.”

When quizzed by Ars, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) declined to reveal more technical details about the system, opting instead to give us some notes it had already spoon fed to the Mail On Sunday. It also refused to comment on which third party will be developing and operating the government’s age verification system.

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