Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

UK watchdog probes TikTok (and Reddit, Imgur) over children’s data | POLITICO

2025/03/03
“The ICO […] say they don’t expect you to implement age assurance measures which […] pose a significant & disproportionate economic impact on businesses” | @pwaring@fosstodon.org

2025/02/14
404media: “Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics” | …I look forward to Pornhub’s announcement of pulling out of the UK…

2025/01/27
It will be really interesting to see if Pornhub (et al) choose to revoke their service to the UK in a manner consistent with their actions in the US, or not…

2025/01/17
All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July | BBC News

2025/01/16
“Is it a revolution? No, it’s porn…”

2025/01/05
The Pornhub Bans Are Not About Keeping Kids Safe | …frankly this goes for most online safety regulation…

2025/01/04
Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law | Vietnam | The Guardian | …I am honestly wondering what @getyoti thinks of how Digital ID is being used in Vietnam

2025/01/02
“So when is the earliest that UK users could now benefit from options to verify their identity?” | …clearly that’s what’s lacking in the UK: social media sites must vet us

2024/12/05
The lesson of phenylephrine is that it takes a minimum of 20 years to rescind ineffective regulator-imposed technologies that are introduced in response to moral panic; now consider Age Verification…

2024/11/10
Australian Government demands that SOCIAL NETWORKS MUST COLLECT EVEN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN (HT: @eSafetyOffice)

2024/11/07
VPN traffic from France to spike

2024/10/17