Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.

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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Young adults involved in sex education told the BBC they believed having these kinds of protections in place would help prevent children being exposed to pornography.

    Jack Liepa, director of the charity Sexpression, which sends university students into schools to run workshops about sex and relationships, said the Online Safety Act was a positive step, but not a complete solution.

    “Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy”, it said.

    Simon Migliano, head of research at VPN comparison site Top10VPN.com said "In Louisiana demand for VPNs more than tripled while in Utah it surged by 847% the day after the new age checks came into effect.

    “The potential consequences of data being leaked are catastrophic and could include blackmail, fraud, relationship damage, and the outing of people’s sexual preferences in very vulnerable circumstances,” she said.

    Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes, talking to Women’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, said operators of explicit sites would need to “balance getting the verification highly effective with preserving data privacy, which is a legal requirement.”


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