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Age verification is coming with the Online Safety Bill. It’ll force the choice of blocking content to ensure platforms are suitable for children or make all users verify their age.

This is “a huge boon to age verification companies, for little practical benefit for child safety, and much harm to people’s privacy.”

🗣 @jim - ORG Exec Director.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #ukpoltics #freedomofexpression

https://www.verdict.co.uk/news/uk-online-safety-bill-how-can-sites-verify-users-ages/