AVS Group Ltd. has not paid the penalty of 1 million pounds, or approximately $1.3 million, that Ofcom imposed on the company for failure to implement robust age checks on 18 adult websites, the U.K. media regulator disclosed on Monday.
Adult content provider AVS Group has begun to institute robust age checks on some of its websites after U.K. media regulator Ofcom last week imposed a penalty of approximately $1.3 million for noncompliance with Online Safety Act regulations, the BBC is reporting.
U.K. media regulator Ofcom on Wednesday imposed a penalty of one million pounds, or approximately $1.3 million, on AVS Group Ltd. after an investigation concluded that the company had failed to implement robust age checks on 18 adult websites.