Current Region:
Global
Women’s organisations, headteachers, children’s charities and parliamentarians have joined Baroness Floella Benjamin in writing to the Prime Minister, calling on him to implement urgently Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act as an interim measure to help protect women and children through age verification and restrictions on extreme pornography.
Read the letter in full below…
LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER
There has been growing debate over whether app stores should take on the responsibility of age verification. Some tech companies, including Meta and Snap, have suggested that app stores should enforce these age restrictions, preventing underage users from downloading...
Why age verification laws should require more than an IP address to prove a user’s location Understanding “the VPN Fallacy” Some adult websites claim they comply with state-mandated age verification laws by blocking access from states where such laws are in effect....