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NEW: Analysis finds UK's age verification rollout is producing exactly the opposite of the desired effect:
Driving traffic non-compliant adult sites.
Which punishes compliant ones.
Entirely predictable.
The more the government squeezes, the more they reward the very sites that scoff at their rules.
And then there's the matter of the UK government asking people to please stop using VPNs...
It's a harmful embarrassment.
The UK's age verification law forces law-abiding citizens to hand over personal data / scan their faces as they browse.
Compelling folks to participate a massive clandestine census of browsing activity.
As these troves of data grow, they expose everyone to the risk of new breaches. And worse.
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/31/age-verification-uk-porn-sites/Published at
2025-08-31 12:55:20 UTCEvent JSON
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