The Duty of Care requirements in the Online Harms Bill will mirror the ICO’s recently published Age Appropriate Design Code, and require operators to take a proportionate, risk- based approach. The challenge for online dating sites is that the risk of children under...
Lying about your age when dating – whether on or offline – is not unusual, and sites may or may not wish to prevent this. Indeed, dating sites could still allow it, even after applying age verification for harm prevention purposes. That would be a matter of policy,...
Age verification technology has been designed to protect the user’s privacy, so the dating website would never have access to any personal information supplied to prove age. The approach was originally developed to protect the privacy of users when they visit adult...
In the UK, the Online Dating Association has adopted a voluntary minimum age of 18. Some campaigners advocate full identity assurance for online dating, to mitigate perceived risks around fraud and sexual assault. However, it is likely that many consumers would...
