This means that people will have to start trusting their personal data to websites whose security they know little about, in situations where their concerns about privacy and anonymity may be higher than usual. With anti-censorship and privacy groups up in arms, and network engineers scratching their heads, worries that the law will have unintended consequences are surfacing too.Īt its heart is the age verification process, which it seems will involve asking for credit card numbers. As regulator it will also will be given the power to fine publishers up to £250,000 ($325,000) for failing to impose verification, on pain of being blocklisted by local ISPs.Īll this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world. It seems likely that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will be empowered to decide what constitutes a pornographic website.
The plan, proposed as part of the Digital Economy Act in 2016, was formally “commenced” this week by the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, who offered surprisingly scant detail on its implementation in comments made to a newspaper website. If all goes to plan, from April 2018 anyone in the UK visiting a website deemed pornographic will be asked to verify that they are aged 18 or over before they can proceed.
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