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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Dan Milmo and agency

Pornography company fined £1m by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks

A child under a blanket looking at a smartphone.
The Online Safety Act brought in a new set of laws aimed at protecting children and adults from harmful content. Photograph: Grechanyuk Aleksandr/Alamy

A pornography company that runs 18 adult websites has been fined £1m by the watchdog Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks, in the largest fine yet under the UK’s Online Safety Act.

The Belize-based AVS Group has been hit with the punishment, plus a further £50,000 for failing to respond to information requests.

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