Porn company starts new age checks after £1m Ofcom fine
The UK's media regulator says a porn company it fined £1m for failing to comply with the Online Safety Act has started to include more robust age checks on some of its websites.
On 4 December Ofcom announced the £1m fine of AVS Group Ltd, which runs a number of pornographic websites, for not having good enough age verification methods.
An Ofcom spokesperson said since the decision, AVS has now implemented a "highly effective age assurance method on certain websites", which was able to tell whether or not a child was using the site.
It added the group could still incur fines of £1,000 per day, until the body was "satisfied" with the changes it had made across all of its platforms.