Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:05PM
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Yes, they are in scope but a "small community forum" has nothing to do but to fill and keep a few self-assessments just in case. There is no requirement to implement age verification across the board (hence why current official guidelines target only porn sites in relation to age verification).
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by jadamson on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:19PM
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> a few self-assessments just in case
Ah right, just a couple of forms how bad can it possi...
> Step 1: identify the 17 kinds of priority illegal content that need to be separately assessed
lol.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by grepnork on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:39PM
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>identify the 17 kinds of priority illegal content that need to be separately assessed
If you're a site with lots of child users, or if your site holds pornography.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by jadamson on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:45PM
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No. What you have in mind is probably a Children’s Access Assessment[1], which is not what I linked.
[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:43PM
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You are being facetious as "priority illegal contents" are the sort that are the ones that are obviously very unlikely to be encountered on a "normal" small community forum. So this is no more than a box-ticking exercise, really.
Regarding age verification, the OSA is explicit states that if you ban all such content in your T&Cs you do NOT need to have age verification.