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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by jadamson on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:19PM (#44891953)
> 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...

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by grepnork on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:39PM (#44892178)
>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.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by jadamson on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:45PM (#44892234)
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...

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by mytailorisrich on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:43PM (#44892211)
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.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by jadamson on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:44PM (#44892905)
> this is no more than a box-ticking exercise, really

You won't mind getting rid of it, then.

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