UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
by Jim Waterson Media editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#4SP8A)
Climbdown follows difficulties with implementing plan to ensure users are over 18
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.
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