Arcom puts in caturbate and pornovore formal notice to comply with the law – Liberation

Pressure for porn. Arch has put suppliers of two pornographic sites to comply with the age of 18, we learned this Tuesday, April 22, April 22 in a press release of authority. These are platforms Chaturbate And Pornivoreaccording to decisions dated April 16 and published on the legal space of the Arcom site today.

The two sites thus have a period of 15 days to comply with the law, which entered into force in January, which obliges the publishers of these sites to set up an identification system preventing minors from accessing them. After this period, « Arch may request their blockage and dereferencing or pronounce pecuniary sanctions », Specifies the digital and audiovisual gendarme.

As a reminder, the Arcom has sanctioning powers on X sites being in violation of the law. At the beginning of March, the digital gendarme had indicated that it had identified six porn sites established in France or outside the European Union which had not complied with the law, one of which has already been blocked: The Camschat video sharing site.

The other three sites have not received a formal notice because they have since implemented various ways to prove its majority, as a selfie evaluated by artificial intelligence.

This obligation follows the promulgation of law to secure the digital space (Sren) In May 2024. In October, Arch published an identification benchmark imposed on X sites based on the principle of « double anonymity », a way of verifying the age of users while respecting their anonymity. Concretely: the user downloads a document attesting to their majority on an application, then the X site receives confirmation from the visitor’s age, but without knowing their identity.

The verification of the age of users on porn sites was obtained after a long battle between the public authorities and the publishers. It had long been claimed by child protection associations in France, while 2.3 million minors attend pornographic sites, according to Arcom data.

In its press release, Arch also recalls that from June 7, it will also be competent to « Check the conformity of several pornographic platforms established in other member states of the European Union », And no longer just in France, in accordance with the interministerial decree published in this sense in early March. « The authority thus reaffirms its commitment to the protection of minors on the Internet, in general, and the protection of minors against online pornography, in particular. »