All Porn Sites Could Soon Have Age Verification Checks, British Surfers Warned

All porn sites could soon have age verification systems to prevent people aged under 18 from accessing adult material.

The move, part of the Digital Economy Bill, hopes to restrict access to online porn.

Under the new law, every porn site would have to verify the age of its users to prevent children accessing porn by accident.

It’s still not clear how this would be achieved - with some suggesting that credit cards could be used to verify if site users are over 18.

Digital rights groups have previously voiced alarm at the idea – saying that the move could have an impact on privacy and free expression.

The bill says, ‘A person must not make pornographic material available on the Internet on a commercial basis to persons in the United Kingdom except in a way that secures that, at any given time, the material is not normally accessible by persons under the age of 18.