PARIS—Arcom, France's digital regulator, announced today that pornography websites operating within the country's digital space are prohibited from using a person's credit card information to verify ages in compliance with its national age verification law.
This regulation covers France-based sites and platforms outside the European Union bloc with French users, reports MLex.
Platforms must use double-blind age checks, which are preferred by the country's data protection regulator CNIL.
Under Arcom's and CNIL's rules, double-blind checks allow cryptographically signed age assurance certificates to be generated and provided to age-restricted platforms, like porn sites, without identifying or tracking the online users initiating the touchpoint. Double-blind checks have been touted as data-minimizing.
