Privacy

The Online Safety Act aims to protect under-18s from viewing harmful content online through more robust age checks – with an emphasis on sites hosting "explicit material."

Until now, many sites that require the visitor to be over 18 simply require you to click a button confirming your age, with no actual checks take place.

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Credit card checks, facial age estimation, and submitting photographic ID are some of the ways age verification can be done. Numerous Third Party 'Age Assurance Solution' websites are popping up all over the internet with promises of 'keeping your data safe' and wanting you to upload a facial image, official government ID, mobile phone number, name, address, email or your credit card details – all of these websites pose concerning cyber-security and privacy risks.

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How comfortable are you handing over your personal, very sensitive, information to an unknown third-party? Who owns these websites and how secure are they? ..........

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Guardian VPN Router​

Whilst we do not condone circumventing the Online Privacy Act all Guardian Routers, by their very nature, are capable of allowing access to websites where Age Verification is implemented.

 

If you so wish, you can just set your VPN Location to any country where Age Verification isn't required and enter the website as usual.

 

You can check which countries do not enforce Age Verification here: https://avpassociation.com/map

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