View source for UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system

Plans to introduce a nationwide age verification system for online pornography have been abandoned by the government after years of technical troubles and concerns from privacy campaigners. The climbdown follows countless difficulties with implementing the policy, which would have required all pornography websites to ensure users were over 18. Methods would have included checking credit cards or allowing people to buy a "porn pass" age verification document from a newsagent. Websites that refused to comply with the policy - one of the first of its kind in the world - faced being blocked by internet service providers or having their access to payment services restricted.<br>
<br>
<i>source: Article 'UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system' by Jim Waterson; www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-plans-for-online-pornography-age-verification-system; The Guardian; 16 October 2019</i>

[[Category:Jim Waterson]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Pornography]]
[[Category:Pornografie]]
[[Category:Privacy]]