It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids, it’s relatively easy to cheat; for everyone else, suddenly required to prove their ages, it’s a major privacy setback. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation puts it:

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. “There is no standardization of how age verification is supposed to take place.”

The introduction of the UK's Online Safety Act marks a shift in internet culture, the ripples of which are already being felt around the world.

Following the rollout of the UK Online Safety Act, Britons are now being asked to confirm their age across the internet. Here’s everything you need to know.