Continuing its debate over the proposed Online Safety Bill, the Open Rights Group is concerned about proposals that will "mandate age verification or age assurance processes onto all sites, services, or applications offering user-to-user content or communication which can be accessed in the UK." According to the ORG, this will mean age checks on "all content, all sites, all services, and all users, all the time" except those deemed ‘child safe’. The implications could be far-reaching and result in a significant reduction to our digital rights.
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