THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS
INDUSTRY
UK Child Online
Safety Policy
Age Verification
E
arlier in the year, I wrote an article
(Monitor, Issue 67) about the progress
the UK is making in the field of child
online safety. I focused on the work of the UK
Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) and
in particular, on the deployment of free,
sophisticated filters being deployed by UK ISPs.
According to recent research from Ofcom, the
amount of time 8-15 year olds spend online has
more than doubled since 2005.
In this article, I am going to talk about the introduction of age verification in the UK, as part of the Digital Economy Bill, now going
through Parliament and likely to be implemented in 2017. It’s a ground-breaking step which, as