Clarification: Porn-Age Verification-Utah story
Aug 1, 2023, 5:29 PM | Updated: Aug 2, 2023, 5:22 pm
FILE - Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler looks on as he sits on the Senate floor on March 2, 2023, at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. A judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, that was brought by adult entertainers, erotica authors and sex educators challenging Utah's law requiring porn and other adult websites verify user ages. Sen. Weiler, the age verification law's Republican sponsor, said after the dismissal that he was unsurprised that the lawsuit was dismissed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In a story published August 1, 2023, The Associated Press reported that some adult websites were experimenting with age-verification services to comply with a new law in Utah. The story should have made clear that an age estimation program offered by the company Yoti uses facial scanning to estimate a person’s age, not facial recognition that cross-checks faces with databases to authenticate an individual’s identity.
