The California Senate Judiciary Committee proposed making ID verification optional for pornography websites in new amendments to the state’s age verification bill, according to the bill analysis released Tuesday.
The committee proposed amendments to the Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act (PACPA) that made proof-of-age methods like providing a government ID or a credit card on pornography websites only an option, allowing companies to instead use other methods like “metadata or response headers identifying the product as sexually explicit,” according to the analysis. The bill was introduced in February by Republican state Assemblyman Juan Alanis and requires businesses that provide products “illegal to make available to minors” take “reasonable steps” to make sure that users are legal.
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