Pornhub's Age Checks Lean on Apple, and a Regulator Has Questions

A regulator has concerns about how Pornhub handles age verification — specifically, BBC Technology reports, the site's reliance on third-party checks provided by Apple for some users. Borrowed verification is tidy in one respect: a site can lean on a check it didn't build. But the qualifier matters. A check that covers part of an audience rather than all of it is a patchwork, and patchworks are the sort of thing a regulator tends to want to inspect more closely than a single rule.