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Notes
1. Sixty-five per cent of 15–16 year olds, 45% of 13–14 year olds and 28% of 11–12 year olds, from a survey of 1001 UK 11–16 year olds (Martellozzo et al. Citation2016, 26, Figure 10).
2. Twenty-two per cent of 15–16 year olds, 12% of 13–14 year olds and 6% of 11–12 year olds, from a survey of 1032 UK 9–16 year olds (Livingstone et al. Citation2010, 27, Table 7).
3. A risk the UK government are aware of – see the DCMS Impact Assessment (Citation2016, 2).
4. See https://www.ageid.com (accessed September 21, 2018).
5. MindGeek Digital Media Director David Cooke informed delegates at the age verification technology demo organized by the Adult Provider Network in 2016 that MindGeek anticipate 20–25 million adults in the United Kingdom will use Age ID within the first month.
6. PornHub recently suffered a year-long malvertising attack (Neal Citation2017). Chat logs and login details for 800,000 Brazzers subscribers were leaked in 2016 (Newcomb Citation2016). A YouPorn data breach revealed the email addresses, usernames and passwords of a million porn viewers (Dunn Citation2012). The same year, hackers romped through Digital Playground, leaking 73,000 user details and numbers, expiry dates and security codes for 40,000 credit cards; ‘the Digital Playground site was so riddled with security holes that it acted as a irresistible target’ (Leyden Citation2012).
7. A scenario suggested by the DCMS Impact Assessment (Citation2017, 2).
8. See https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ (accessed September 21, 2018).