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May 27, 2019

Hacking, Identity Theft Fears Increase as UK Porn Block Law Nears

CYBERSPACE—With now less than two months to go before the final implementation of the United Kingdom’s new anti-porn law, which blocks online porn sites for anyone who can’t or won’t upload provide age-verification documents, new fears that the law could open the door to a wave of online crime, including fraud and identity theft, appear to be growing more intense. The law is set to take effect on July 15, as AVN.com reported, after nearly two years of delays, and is designed to deny access to online porn sites for anyone under 18 years old. Privacy advocates have already blasted the law as “dangerous,” “irresponsible” and even potentially “disastrous” if uploaded personal documents were to leak, opening up the prospect of blackmail on a massive scale. Sky News reported earlier this month that though exactly how the new law will unfold remains uncertain, “it's quite possible that one of the outcomes will be a database of every porn watcher in the UK.” Under the law, when porn fans attempt to visit one of their favorite sites, they will first be taken to a non-pornographic landing page where they will be required to upload personal information, such as official documents, to prove that they are over 18. But according to a report in The Sun newspaper, one cybersecurity firm has already warned that some of those landing pages are likely to be fake. That way, online scammers can siphon up personal identity documents from porn-watchers who upload their information trying to get access to a porn site, only to find that they have not reached a porn site at all but instead transmitted their sensitive personal identification documents to an anonymous bunch of crooks on the other end. “Users of age-restricted video sites should also look for the ‘Age-verification Certificate’ — the British Board of Film Classification’s stamp of authority, which certifies the adequacy of the site’s chosen age-verification software,” said Alastair Graham, CEO of the age-verification software maker AgeChecked.  Users could also be pushed to look for access to porn in ways that cannot employ the age-check system, such as via torrent sites, or on the “dark web.” But contact to those shadowy areas of the internet would also expose users to criminal hazards. "If these behaviors increase, we could end up exposing internet users of all ages to illegal content, as well as malware and other cyber crimes,”  cybersecurity specialist Fennel Aurora told the Sun. But one adult entertainment merchant, the UK chain Pulse & Cocktails, has proposed what it says is a safe way to get access to porn without exposing personal identity information: Buy it in a store. “Want to remain anonymous? We have 1000's of adult DVD's available in our stores across the UK,” the adult retailer said on its official Twitter account. “We DO NOT retain any of your information or copies of your ID.” Photo By ITSveronica / Wikimedia Commons 

 
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