Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Porn company fined £1 million ($1.34M) by Ofcom for UK age verification breaches
Ofcom fined AVS Group Ltd £1 million ($1.34M) for failing to meet UK Online Safety Act age verification requirements, plus £50,000 for non-compliance with the investigation itself.
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News OnlyFans introduces compulsory criminal record checks for US creators
OnlyFans is requiring US creators to pass criminal record checks via Checkr, a background screening company with hundreds of lawsuits against it, without specifying which convictions would actually bar someone from joining.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK issues first porn age verification fines, totaling just £75,000
Ofcom issued its first fines under UK porn age verification rules, totaling just £75,000 across two targets: nudify app Undress.cc and 4chan, with the latter refusing to pay.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
Aylo wrote to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging device-level age verification for porn, citing a 77% UK traffic drop to Pornhub as evidence that site-based systems push users toward less regulated alternatives.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Pornhub, Chaturbate and OnlyFans on Italy’s new porn age verification list
Italy's AGCOM has listed 45 porn platforms, including Pornhub, OnlyFans, and Chaturbate, that must implement age verification by November 12 or face fines up to €250,000.
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News Character.AI bans open-ended chats for under-18s as tech giants split on erotic AI
Character.AI will block under-18 accounts from open-ended chatbot conversations by November 25, 2025, following lawsuits tied to teen deaths, as the industry splits between Microsoft's refusal of erotic AI and OpenAI and Grok's embrace
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Pornhub says UK traffic dropped 77% after age verification laws as users flock to non-compliant sites
Pornhub's UK traffic fell 77% after age verification kicked in under the Online Safety Act in July 2025, with parent company Aylo telling regulators users migrated to non-compliant sites rather than stopping.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Inevitable? Discord data breach exposes 70,000 government IDs through age verification hack
Hackers breached Zendesk, a Discord vendor handling age verification appeals, potentially exposing government IDs and personal data belonging to 70,000 users.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage ChatGPT will guess your age to block sexual content and ‘flirtatious talk’
OpenAI is rolling out age-prediction in ChatGPT to automatically restrict sexual content and flirtatious responses for users it identifies as under 18, with ID-based verification for adults who want fewer restrictions.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Australia will require age checks for online porn from March 2026
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has mandated age verification for online porn from March 9, 2026, with fines of up to AUS $49.5 million per breach for non-compliant platforms.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK watchdog investigates 22 porn sites over age verification failures
Ofcom has opened age verification investigations into 22 porn sites with over 8 million monthly UK visitors, targeting platforms that gained traffic after the July 25, 2025 compliance deadline.
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News Roblox to introduce age estimation for anyone using its chat functions by end of 2025
Roblox will require age estimation for all users of its chat functions by end of 2025, combining face scanning, ID verification, and parental consent, following a Louisiana lawsuit alleging the platform enables child exploitation.
