Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Recent reporting, brand coverage, ongoing story threads, and source-backed context from SEXTECHGUIDE.
Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News India lifts ban on TikTok app downloads
India's Supreme Court lifted its interim ban on TikTok downloads, overturning a restriction imposed over claims the app spread adult content amid a broader national crackdown on porn platforms.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK ‘porn block’ to start July 15
The UK's DCMS confirmed age verification enforcement under the Digital Economy Act begins July 15, 2019, requiring porn sites worldwide to verify UK users' ages or face payment withdrawal and blocking.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK ‘porn ban’ to start in just a few weeks, and there’s still no plan to protect personal data
The UK's age verification regime is weeks from launch with no data privacy standard in place, no public consultation, and no clear plan for how personal data on porn users will be handled.
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Analysis In Age verification: decade of coverage ‘Unworkable’ age verification plans set to cost UK taxpayers at least £4.5m
UK government estimates enforcing Digital Economy Act age verification will cost taxpayers up to £7.9 million, with critics calling the scheme unworkable, privacy-threatening, and likely to push young people toward the dark web.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage As 2019 approaches, there’s still no answer to who will be in charge of UK’s porn database
The UK's Digital Economy Act age verification mandate missed its April 2018 deadline and its December 2018 deadline, now pushed to April 2019, with no clarity on which regulator is responsible for protecting the
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Opinion In Age verification: decade of coverage Hostile platforms: Is Big Tech turning its back on adult indie creators?
Big Tech platforms including Facebook, Patreon, YouTube, and Twitter are systematically pushing adult indie creators off mainstream infrastructure, while UK age verification rules threaten to finish the job for anyone who goes independent.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK’s age verification porn plans delayed until end of 2018
The UK government quietly delayed its mandated age verification law for porn sites until late 2018, burying the admission in an unrelated broadband announcement.
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Opinion In Age verification: decade of coverage ‘Porn warps culture’ is not an argument that justifies erosion of privacy
The UK's incoming age verification rules will push porn viewing into databases and card statements, trading real privacy risks for ineffective child protection.
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News xHamster and Enterprise battle porn cybersquatting cases, but only one won
xHamster won a domain transfer against xHamsterPorn.net, while Enterprise Holdings failed to claim EHI9.com after an arbitrator found no typosquatting.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage New UK porn laws to ban ‘non-conventional’ sex videos as government continues crackdown on adult content
The UK government proposed blocking sites hosting 'non-conventional' porn and requiring age verification across all platforms, three days after passing the Investigatory Powers Act.
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News Court continues to rule sex toys illegal in US city, despite knowing decision is wrong
A federal appeals court upheld Sandy Springs, Georgia's ban on sex toy sales, explicitly acknowledging the ruling was wrong but citing a binding 2004 precedent it lacked authority to overturn.
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News Porn sites troll Republican delegates voting on new anti-porn rules
Republican delegates voting to declare porn a public health crisis found Kink.com granting all 2,472 of them free site access, while xHamster exposed the top search terms in Republican-dominated states.
