AGCOM has approved the new rules for the “verification of the major age of online users”. This is one of the last steps to change the way in Italy you sail in the platforms that retain adult material. According to the rules decided by Agcom every time you access one of these platforms it will be necessary to switch from a system that verifies how old we have.
In six months to see a porn it will be necessary to make a more step. According to what we read from Agcom it will be one digital verification to understand our age. How this verification process will be inserted is not yet clear. Just as it is not clear what the platform on which yes will support AGCOM For checks, which data will be requested and how they will then be kept. AGCOM is the abbreviation that indicates theAuthority for guarantees in communications. At the moment the verification of age is left to self -certification.
The scheme is not new. Such methods have already been adopted in other countries, starting from the United States. The test was the Louisiana. Here already in January 2023 a rule had been applied to define an age verification system for pornographic content. Specifically here the verification took place with the service Alpassrusta service similar to our Spid.
Hence the same law has been applied to other states, albeit with some variant. Result? Traffic to Pornhub has collapsed and in response the company has decided to close access to the site in 17 countries in the United States, including Florida and Texas. Here we leave you an interview with Solomon Friedman, owner of Pornhub, released to Fanpage.it in May 2024 Just on this theme.
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How the system approved by AGCOM works
From what we can read, the idea of AGCOM is to apply one to the platforms Check in two steps: “The defined age verification system provides for the intervention, for the supply of proof that the user is of age, of certified independent third parties, defining a process based on the two passages, logically separated, of the identification and authentication of the identified person, for each session of use of the regulated service”.
How users’ anonymity is guaranteed
AGCOM has also defined a trial for a press release for guarantee anonymity Of the users who access the platforms where adult materials are preserved: “The” double anonymity “mechanism does not in fact allow verification of the age of knowledge providers for what service the test of age is issued. At the same time, the test provided to the website or the platform does not contain the user’s identification data”.
Of course, now it remains to be understood how the process will be carried outwhich applications will be used and how they will have to install. In fact, it is likely that the verification of the age is requested Every time you access the platform. Always according to the first information, everything could come with an app that automatically connects to the platforms when we access to confirm our identity.
