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Germany requires adult websites and other “telemedia” services to implement reliable age verification systems that confirm users are 18+; regulators now enforce compliance with techniques such as ID c...
Available reporting shows regulatory action against OnlyFans itself over its age/ID verification practices — notably Ofcom investigations and fines in 2025 — but the search results do not document a c...
OnlyFans requires government-issued ID plus a live selfie check and payment information for creators; the platform uses third-party identity vendors such as Ondato and (in some reporting) Yoti to run ...
A growing number of countries and many U.S. states now require some form of age or identity verification for social media or for access to age‑restricted online content: Australia’s law will force pla...
The Online Safety Act requires online services that host pornography or other defined “primary priority” harmful content to implement “highly effective” age assurance—using age verification, age estim...
Document-based KYC remains common, but suppliers and regulators are rapidly adopting biometric methods — facial biometrics, liveness (active and passive), behavioral biometrics, on‑device credentialin...
Discord’s current public tests require either a facial age-estimation selfie or a scan/upload of a government ID; Discord and partners say ID images are deleted after use and facial age estimation run...
OnlyFans primarily directs creators through identity checks using the third-party vendor Ondato for ID and selfie verification, and has announced use of Checkr Trust for background checks in the U.S.;...
OnlyFans relies publicly on multiple third‑party identity‑verification vendors—most prominently Ondato and Yoti as named partners in platform and vendor statements—and has been the subject of regulato...
Multiple types of actors — government regulators, industry certifications and vendors, civil‑society watchdogs, and privacy and data‑protection authorities — now share responsibility for monitoring co...