“VPN downloads up 1400%.” That’s MEF’s Tim Green on the immediate fallout of the UK’s new Online Safety Law, which enforces age verification for adult content and triggered 5 million extra checks daily. But users are dodging the system, raising doubts about the law’s effectiveness and exposing deeper cracks in the digital identity ecosystem.

In this episode of Perspectives, Riccardo Amati speaks with MEF’s new Programme Director for ID and Data about the privacy concerns, compliance challenges, and what this all means for the future of AV, fraud prevention, and digital wallets.

From VPN loopholes to identity innovation, Green shares why the system risks a crisis — and what the mobile ecosystem must do next.