The new French law, which comes into force this year, requires adult websites age control and blocking users under 18 years of age.
The law began to apply on Friday for pages registered in France, such as the French Dorcel brand, and those registered outside the European Union, such as onlyfans. From June 7, age checks will be extended to pages based in other EU countriesincluding such giants of the sector as Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube, belonging to the Aylo group and based in Cyprus, and XVIDEOS based in the Czech Republic.
According to the new regulations, the French audiovisual and digital service regulator has the right block adults for adults if they decide that they do not implement age verification Correct and on time.
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– Minister for Digital Affairs Clara Chappaz told us that The first blockades of the site can take place this summer – says a member of the parliament acquainted with a matter to whom we provided anonymity so that he could reveal the details of confidential conversations.
The owner of Pornhub, Aylo, has already charged the law.
“They will wait until the last moment”
For now, only French and non -European adults can be blocked. Starting from Friday, these pages must offer at least one safe age verification system With the help of methods such as checking an identity document or even a video selfie that estimates the user's age.
This led to the fact that Software providers for age verification began to offer their services to pornographic pages. Iain Corby, the president of AVPA, a large association of suppliers of such software, said that in the period preceding the Friday date in France, “decisive interest in” verification tools appeared. He added, however, that for now the association has noted only a few cases of actual implementation of these solutions.
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What stops age control from wider dissemination is the fact that by users they are considered a burden, and by activists for digital rights – for a threat to privacy. For their part, platforms are afraid that the implementation of tools before the expiry of the legal period may mean that their users will go to a site, which is not yet consistent with the regulations.
Most of the sites that have implemented age verification are paid platformssuch as the French Dorcel, who signed a partnership agreement with British Yoti to implement his solutions to verify the age from Thursday evening.
– All sites want to adapt to this – says one of the people employed at the provider of solutions to verify the age, which we provided anonymity so that they can discuss confidential discussions. – But They will wait until the last minute.
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