Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy
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UK regulators intensified enforcement on child online safety and privacy: Ofcom fined a porn operator for failing to deploy “highly effective” age verification, while the ICO levied a $18.2M penalty on Reddit for unlawfully using children’s data in targeted advertising. The report explains how Ofcom’s Online Safety Act duties and the ICO’s UK GDPR/Age Appropriate Design Code overlap, and surveys age-verification methods (facial age estimation, banking checks, digital IDs, credit card checks, mobile network signals, ID photo matching), highlighting their usability and privacy risks.
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