AgeGo Reveals More Countries Plan Age Verification Mandates

AgeGo Reveals More Countries Plan Age Verification Mandates

BARCELONA — Age verification solution provider AgeGO has reported that many countries are closely following the success of the U.K.’s initiative and is offering an overview of those nations that are examining future age verification options.

Spain
The limitation of online pornographic content online was included in the electoral program of the newly elected Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez (Social Democrats). The goal of the new government is to implement a new strict age verification system for adult websites.

According to new research carried out by the Balearic Islands University, which polled 2,500 people aged between 16-29, some children start to consume pornography at age eight with the average age for boys starting to consume pornography 14 and 16 for girls. Mobile phones are the main point of access for sexual content, with 50 percent of young people admitting it is the device they most use to watch porn. Although many come across pornography unintentionally, others start searching for images out of curiosity. The anonymity of consumers, the free access to unlimited content, the high quality of the video content, and the wide range of sexual practices (including abuses and illegal practices) portrayed in such websites are some of the factors that worry specialists most.

South Africa
Recently a discussion paper was published by the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) which proposed a revision of existing online legislation to limit access to porn, including a default block on internet devices requiring age verification to bypass.

According to its introduction, the 360-something-page document aims to identify gaps in the manner in which the law currently regulates and protects children from being exposed to pornography or from being used to create child sexual abuse material, and to serve as a basis for in-depth deliberation on the law reform needed to protect children and to test public opinion on the solutions identified by the Commission.

Most significantly (and, probably, most controversially), the discussion paper recommends that all devices (new and second hand) be issued with or returned to a default setting that blocks inappropriate content, with an opt-in possibility depending on the proof of age of the buyer/user as being 18 or older.

Ireland
This year the Department of Communications launched a public consultation on a new law to regulate harmful content online. The results are currently being examined in preparation for the development of legislation with age verification being considered in the context of the forthcoming legislation.

Poland
MPs for the country’s Law and Justice party have put forward radical proposals to curtail access to porn websites. Research from the Integrated Prevention Institute shows that in Poland, 60 percent of boys and 40 percent of girls are first exposed to porn at the age of 11.

Other countries also investigating age verification laws include Sweden and France, with AgeGO monitoring the situation and keeping clients updated about any further developments.

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