Catholic News Agency
A Utah bill that is designed to prevent minors from accessing pornography online is set to go into effect on Wednesday, May 3, leading the website Pornhub to block access to its website in the entire state.
The legislation, which Gov. Spencer Cox signed in March, requires commercial entities that provide pornography or other material harmful to minors to verify a person’s age before the person can access the material. It also holds publishers and distributors liable if they fail to comply with the rules.
When the bill goes into effect, pornographers will need to verify a user’s age in one of three ways.
The website can verify age through a digitized information card, which is a data file on a mobile device that contains all data elements visible on the face and back of a license or identification card. It can verify age through an independent, third-party verification service that compares the individual’s personal information from commercially available databases. Lastly, it can use any commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify the age of the person.
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