Ofcom has commenced investigations into two pornographic services - Itai Tech Ltd and Score Internet Group LLC - under our age assurance enforcement programme.
Under the Online Safety Act, online services must ensure children
cannot access pornographic content on their sites. In January, we wrote to online services that display or publish their own pornographic content to explain that the requirements for them to have highly effective age checks in place to protect children
had come into force. We requested details of services' plans for complying, along with an implementation timeline and a named point of contact.
Encouragingly, many services confirmed that they are implementing, or have plans to
implement, age assurance on around 1,300 sites. A small number of services chose to block UK users from accessing their sites, rather than putting age checks in place.
Certain services failed to respond to our request and have not
taken any steps to implement highly effective age assurance to protect children from pornography.
We are today opening investigations into Itai Tech Ltd - a service which runs the nudification site Undress.cc - and Score Internet Group LLC, which runs the site Scoreland.com. Both sites appear to have no highly effective age assurance in place and are
potentially in breach of the Online Safety Act and their duties to protect children from pornography. Next steps
We will provide an update on both investigations on our website in due course, along with details of any further
investigations launched under this enforcement programme
Update: Low Scores
2nd July 2025. See
article from ofcom.org.uk
Ofcom has closed its investigation of scoreland.com after the website introduced age/ID verification. The website now requires that UK users subscribe using a credit card (no debit cards) before content can be viewed. Visitors from other countries can
see teaser images and can pay via several other options.
Ofcom writes:
In response to our investigation, Score Internet Group LLC have taken steps to implement highly effective age assurance to ensure compliance
with their duties under Part 5 of the OSA.
As such, Ofcom is satisfied that the conduct that led to the opening of the investigation has ceased and we do not consider it appropriate to continue our investigation. We have therefore
closed it without making any findings as to Score Internet's compliance with its duties, either currently or prior to its confirmation that it had taken steps to comply with the OSA.
