People will have to verify their age to access UK commercial pornographic websites in a bid to stop children accessing content.
Jim Killock from the Open Rights Group says the delays are due to serious concerns about privacy and data collection.
The government isn't providing age verification software of its own; instead the pornography industry will decide for themselves how they verify a user's age. Once the law comes in, anyone attempting to get onto one of these sites will be redirected to a"landing page" which will prompt the user to enter an email address and password. They will then verify their age using a credit card, passport or driving licence or using a special card bought from shops.
"So those commercial pressures will kick in and they'll try to start to monetise that data and all of that data if it leaked out would be very damaging to people so it should simply never be collected". He said:"It's super safe because we have zero data. The only way to ensure its safe is if you don't record any data."The whole premise of the technology is we record nothing.
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