Guidance on age assurance and other Part 5 duties for service providers publishing pornographic content on online services
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asse...5-annexe-2.pdf
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1. Overview
What this guidance covers
This guidance is for service providers that display or publish pornographic content on their
online services to help them comply with their regulatory duties under the Online Safety Act
2023 (‘the Act’). These duties include a requirement for service providers to implement age
assurance to ensure that children are not normally able to encounter pornographic content
displayed or published on their service. 1, 2
This document gives guidance on:
• assessing whether a service is in scope of the Part 5 duties;
• examples of kinds of age verification and age estimation that may be suitable for the
purposes of compliance, and criteria that service providers should fulfil to ensure the age
assurance implemented is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not a
particular user is a child;
• how service providers can keep a written record and produce a publicly available
statement setting out how they have complied with their duties, including how providers
may have regard to the importance of protecting users from breaches of privacy law in
their written record; and
• the principles that we will normally apply when determining whether a service provider
has complied with its duties and where we are likely to consider that it has not complied.
A summary of the duties and recommendations covered in this guidance is set out on the
next page.
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https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asse...5-annexe-2.pdf