EU-Based Porn Sites Given Three Months to Enforce Age Verification in France

New regulation extends age verification requirements to major platforms like PornHub and YouPorn, aiming to protect minors from accessing explicit content.

• An updated French law requires EU-based pornographic websites to implement age verification systems for users in France within three months.
• Platforms like PornHub and YouPorn must ensure these systems are both privacy-respecting and effective, or face penalties including site blocking and delisting.
• The measure is part of broader efforts to protect minors, with 2.3 million French children reportedly accessing such sites annually.
• The law mandates a 'double anonymization' process, allowing users to prove their age without revealing personal identity details.
• Critics, including site operators, argue the measures are ineffective and potentially risky for user privacy, though similar regulations exist in the UK and Germany.

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