A good starting assumption for this answer is that the only un-hackable database is no database at all. Data protection legislation (GDPR) already requires data minimisation – only using and retaining the data required for the purpose at hand. It is possible to...
Providing age verification does not require a record of the purpose for which an age check is carried out. In medicine, a “double-blind clinical trial” is one where neither the researchers nor the patient are aware of whether the latter has had a real drug...
Age verification checks can be completed using passports, driving licences, online banking, through credit reference agencies or with a digital ID app on your mobile phone account; innovative new technology can estimate your age from a selfie using artificial...
Although most pornographic websites are based overseas, the law will give Ofcom the powers to ask search engines, payment and hosting services etc. to withdraw their services to non-compliant sites. The regulator will also have the power to ask Internet Service...
BSI PAS 1296 is the only current internatonal standard for online age checking. The ISO and IEEE are also developing standards that will define a framework for age assurance and a best practice process for implementing age verification, expected to be published this...
