Investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd’s compliance with the duty to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance

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Cymraeg

Online safety Protecting children Enforcement

Published: 11 September 2025

Last updated: 13 October 2025

Open

Investigation into

Youngtek Solutions Ltd

Case opened

10 September 2025

Summary

We are investigating whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 to prevent children from encountering pornographic content on its services through the use of highly effective age assurance.

We are also investigating whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond accurately to an information notice sent under the Act.

Relevant legal provision(s)

Sections 12 and 102(8) of the Online Safety Act 2023

Update – 13 October 2025

On 10 September 2025, Ofcom issued a formal information notice to Youngtek Solutions Ltd under section 100 of the Online Safety Act. As at the date of this announcement, we have not received a response to the information notice. Ofcom has therefore now expanded this investigation to include considering whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond accurately to an information notice sent under the Act.

On 10 September 2025, under our enforcement programme to protect children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance, we opened an investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd in relation to the following adult services it operates: www.imagefap.com, www.empflix.com www.moviefap.com, www.pornrepublic.com and www.TNAflix.com. As part of our investigatory process, if we identify further adult services operated by Youngtek Solutions Ltd that fall within the scope of the Act, we may expand the investigation to include those services.

Ofcom’s investigation will examine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the provider has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under section 12 of the Act, to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance. These duties have applied since 25 July 2025.

Ofcom’s Online Safety Enforcement Guidance sets out how Ofcom will normally approach enforcement under the Act. This includes our approach to information gathering and analysis and the procedural steps we must take to fairly determine the outcome of the investigation.

We will provide an update on the investigation in due course.

Case reference

CW/01319/09/25

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