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Starting today, millions One of the adults trying to access the UK pornography will be asked to prove that they are over the age of 18 Child safety laws online When starting it into effect, the self -selection boxes that allow anyone to demand the age of adulthood on porn websites with facial estimates to estimate age, download identity documents, credit card checks, And more. Some of the largest pornographic sites – including Pornhub and YouPORN – said – Compliance New rules. And social networking sites like Blouseand I respondedand Discord, Grindr and X UK’s age checks are offered to prevent children from seeing harmful content.

In the end, though, not only the British who will see such changes. Throughout the world, a new wave of child protection laws force a deep shift that can normalize widespread strict ages across the web. Some measures are designed to prevent minors specifically from accessing adult materials, while others aim to prevent children from using social media platforms or access to harmful content. In the UK, age checks are now needed through web sites and applications that host porn content, self -harm, suicide, and eating disorder.

Children online protection is an urgent and urgent issue, but privacy and human rights defenders have long warned that although they may be in good faith, age checks provide a set of speech and monitoring issues that may ultimately be the snowball over the Internet.

“Checking an age impedes people’s ability to access unknown information on the Internet,” says Riana Vivroke, Stanford Policy Researcher. “This includes the information that adults have the right to access, but he may not want anyone else to know that he is consumed – such as pornography – as well as the information that children want to access, but for political reasons, it is considered inappropriate for them, such as accurate information about sex, reproductive health information, and LGBTQ content.”

Establishing efforts over the past decade to Entering strong age checks online I recently gained traction. Last month, the United States Supreme Court paved the way for the states Porn website requires To check that visitors are at least 18 years using age stimulation techniques. Pornhub, for example, has already prevented access to Visitors in at least 20 states The laws were also issued. During, The courts ruled in France Last week, porn sites can check users’ ages. Ireland has implemented the laws of age examination Video sites this week. European Commission Test Age to stimulate age. In December, Strict social media ban in Australia For children under the age of 16, it will be valid, submit checks to Social media and people who have logged into search engines.

“If people choose not to log in (to search engines) to avoid age guarantee tests, this may have a widespread impact on integrated integrated methods that people are searching for information online,” says Lisa, a professor of information science at RMIT University at Australia, who was closely following the country’s age visualization policies. “This will also affect the level of privacy that people expect from the ability to search freely online, which may change how and where they are looking for information.”

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Although the last wave of court decisions and legislation on age verification are new, multiple platforms and services online require A form of age examination for years. British reproductive company, YOTI, which works on multiple digital identity technologies The survey face to estimate agesHe says he has made more than 850 million years of age and completes more than a million a day. A YOTI spokesman told WIRED in an email: “Brands are used all over the world in different sectors of this technology, including social media, games, adults, dating, retail and switch,”

Age determination mechanisms come in multiple forms. UK’s online safety law, which is supervised OFCOC Communication RegulatorSeven “Very effective“The approach that web sites can use. Webs usually employ third -party companies from the increasing age insurance instead of verifying the ages directly.