Under the Online Safety Act, services that allow pornography have had to use highly effective age assurance since July 2025, and platforms likely to be accessed by children must protect them from other harmful content. Ofcom is the regulator. Its guidance names approved approaches including facial age estimation, open banking, ID matching and mobile operator checks, sets the four criteria of technical accuracy, robustness, reliability and fairness, and states that self–declaration alone is not age assurance.
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