As policy makers in the UK develop updated policies regulating pornography on the internet, one approach may require users to send a selfie of their adult selves in order to see adult content. The arbiter of age? AI, of course.

If only 1984 author George Orwell were here to write a sequel titled 2024.

The Online Safety Act 2023, which received Royal Assent on October 26, aims to create a safer internet for UK users, particularly children, by mandating service providers to implement effective age verification. The last of six possible methods proposed involves asking users to take selfies and sending them to the government so an AI can verify that the user is an adult.

The proposal doesn’t specify which AI tools or techniques would be used to evaluate the age of a depicted internet user, only emphasizing “reliability” and that “age assurance methods with a degree of variance have been suitably tested,” including artificial intelligence.

The method must also be derived from a trustworthy source, Ofcom said.

More familiar methods outlined in the draft document include credit card verification, photo-ID matching, digital identity wallets, and mobile network operator checks—each of which must be deemed “highly effective” in determining a user’s age while simultaneously upholding stringent data protection laws.

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz

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