Tomorrow (25 July)The UK law on online age verification comes into affect.

[cobra]

It's the UK ID system all over again this time they have sneaked it in as age verification with photo ID

This is the first bit of regulation from Ofcom as Ofcom is now the online safety regulator.

 

I have an account on a site that I opened back in 2003 yes 22 years ago but I know when I login to tomorrow I will be asked

for age verification to prove I'm over 18 when they already know I opened the account 22 years ago.

(It's this bit that will annoy people)

 

This will end up as needing a online passport and will not stop kids from using proxy/VPN to access things from outside the UK.

What are your thoughts on this.

[cobra]

Yes it's happened I'm been asked to age verify on a website that has a 22 year old account on it.

 

I just don't approve of the ways they are going about this. 

They are biometry locking down account's and are now selling you solutions to get back in to them.

the are more then 100 app's on apple and google that are ID apps or online passports

then the are the website that only support this one or that one the nightmare has started.

The needs to be one official app that can not be rejected (under penalty of fine)

 

Also what about the websites that do not operate in the UK or have NO interest in the UK market.

[cobra]

It looks like this ONLY effects UK IP address So the are two options get an age passport (YOTI looks like the big one)

Use a good VPN (This will render more then half the UK legislation about the internet 100% useless)

legislation like the The Online Safety Act (OSA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) and then we have

Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (So under this they can ask your ISP for a log of your internet activity)

and then your ISP gives over that log and all it has is 6 IP address's from a VPN are they going to be

happy with that.

 

I will be asking for a discount from my ISP as the are now additional charges and they are NOT

offing inhouse solutions.

 

Also expect a new wave of scams from India targeting OAPs using the Online Safety Act.

[djweeble]

I have a free subscription to NordVPN with my bank account .... Revolut, that gets me though to any site that the included one on Opera doesn't 👍

F**K you T2K 🤣

[Jamer]

Yes I have Nord, very good 

[cobra]

The easiest way to get past this is to use a VPN but the are some free tricks like NOT using Google for search

results. I've being using alternative search engines and all the big ones are a no go if your trying to get past

Online Safety Act but some of the less known search engines are very promising and the one I'm using the

most at the moment is gigablast and this is one for the bookmark and what makes it stand out is you can use

it the same way as google but you get two links per result "standard" and "Anonymous Proxy"

if you click on standard you will hit UK censorship but click on Anonymous Proxy and it will open that link

over the Tor network you even have a Share Tor link button so you can share a weblink uncensored

this is good for sending links to people you know don't have a VPN or if you don't know if they have one or not.

 

https://gigablast.org/

 

[Rother]

Nice one Cobra.

That link works great.

[cobra]

Now we have full on Digital ID coming can anyone tell me the two are NOT related

and in the future will not be linked together into one super ID

 

Also people go on about the fact that a lot of European countries already have ID Cards

(All EU countries that use the Euro currency have ID and down the line they will link the ID & currency into one)

But for a lot of the European countries like France had to bring in new laws like banning the burqa niqab and even the hijab

so that France had a Digital ID that worked better then one that did not have a law banning head coverings.

 

And this is the thing can anyone see the U.K doing the same making laws that ban head coverings like the burqa

of course not. They are going to bring this law in it will be broken on day one they will not even try to fix it by banning

the above and it will cost billions as they complain at the same time about not having money to keep pensioners warm.