UK will bring authentication requirement to platforms such as Facebook, Google

England, which has started to take new measures to increase the privacy and security of users on the Internet network, is working on a draft law that will require Facebook, Google and other technology platforms to verify user identities.

Harmful users will be blocked

The new law, which is part of the government’s Online Safety Act announced last year, will help prevent anonymous users from engaging in inappropriate behavior. However, technology companies will have to decide how the controls will be made when the social media account is created.

Options proposed by the government include facial recognition via profile picture, two-factor authentication and government-issued authentication, while UK media regulator Ofcom will be responsible for setting the rules.

Also companies “People will now have more control over who can contact them and will be able to stop the tide of hate delivered to them by fake algorithms,” said Nadine Dorries, the country’s minister for the digital division, who also proposed measures to force them to filter out “legal but harmful” material.