LONDON—Ofcom, the United Kingdom's communications regulator, announced Friday that it is investigating two adult entertainment platforms for non-compliance under the Online Safety Act, which requires pornography sites operating in the country's digital space to have age verification measures in place.
The targets of the investigation include the parent company of Score Group, a Florida-based network of adult entertainment sites, and Itai Tech Ltd., the owner of a deepfake "nudify" application called Undress.cc, which is based in Norwich, England.
Ofcom takes issue with Undress.cc and the Score Group website, Scoreland.com, not having effective age verification in place.
"Under the Online Safety Act, online services must ensure children cannot access pornographic content on their sites," reads a statement by Ofcom.
"Encouragingly, many services confirmed that they are implementing, or have plans to implement, age assurance on around 1,300 sites. A small number of services chose to block U.K. users from accessing their sites, rather than putting age checks in place," the statement notes.
Ofcom called Score and Itai Tech "certain services" that didn't respond to requests to "implement highly effective age assurance to protect children from pornography."
Ofcom enforces age verification on user-generated pornographic material, known as part 3 services, as is the requirement for the Online Safety Act.
Itai Tech and Score Group did not respond to requests for comment by the post time.
