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The Digital Wallet Beta will introduce age verification to watch online pornography later this year.
As Australia struggles with the challenge of age verification for social media sites, Spain has announced it is tackling the age verification challenge of online pornographic material by introducing a digital wallet.
After verifying a person’s age, the Cartera Digital Beta – or Digital Wallet Beta – app will issue a credential, valid for 30 days, to access pornographic sites.
The app is planned to go live in two months, hopefully giving porn sites time to implement the technology.
For the moment, the age verification system will only apply to content providers based in Spain, but the country’s National Cybersecurity Institute is planning to keep a register of foreign websites. The plan is to eventually enable age verification to be enforced at the browser level.
The digital wallet itself will be based on the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations, or OpenID4VP, specification.
“The consequences of access to adult content are very serious, and they impact us all,” José Luis Escrivá, Spain’s digital secretary, said in a statement translated by Cyber Daily.
Escrivá added that people between 18 and 26 years old can have issues separating the fantasy of pornography from reality, which can lead to sexist and abusive behaviour.
“All of this, according to studies that have been analysed in the working group, causes distortions of the perception of sexuality, emotional and sexual problems and risk of addiction.
“This system of verification of the age of majority that we present today is one of the most necessary and effective measures to fight against this problem.”
The system will, according to some reports, be voluntary, as porn sites can use their own age verification systems. The digital wallet will likely be eventually replaced by the European Union’s eIDAS2 digital identity system, which began a phased rollout in May of this year.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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