Duty LXD-5945
Publishes adult content, in France
Code Pénal Article 226-8-1, Non-Consensual Sexual Montage and Algorithmically Generated Sexual Contentsince 1 line
Code penal, art. 226-8-1, insere par la loi n. 2024-449 du 21 mai 2024 visant a securiser et a reguler l'espace numerique (SREN), art. 21 · Read the law's page
- Do not create or share, by any means, a non-consensual sexual montage, or a non-consensual, algorithmically generated sexual image, video, or audio reproducing a real person's likeness or voice.
Loi n° 2024-449 du 21 mai 2024 visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (SREN, Law No. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 on securing and regulating the digital space), articles 1 and 2 (age verification for access to pornographic content)since 2 lines
Loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (LCEN), art. 10, 10-1 et 10-2, modifiés et créés par la loi n° 2024-449 du 21 mai 2024, art. 1 et 2 · Read the law's page
- Applies to editors of pornographic websites and video sharing platforms accessible from France that are established in France or outside the European Union, and to those established in another EU member state once a ministerial order names them and three months have passed since its publication.
- Verify that users are adults, using a system that meets the technical référentiel (reference framework) Arcom adopted after an opinion from the CNIL.
Délibération n° 2024-20 du 9 octobre 2024 de l'Arcom relative au référentiel technique de vérification de l'âge pour l'accès aux contenus pornographiques (Arcom Deliberation No. 2024-20 of 9 October 2024 on the technical reference framework for age verification for access to pornographic content)since 5 lines
Délibération n° 2024-20 du 9 octobre 2024, published in the Journal officiel of · Read the law's page
- Applies to age verification systems used by pornographic websites and video sharing platforms covered by LCEN articles 10 and 10-1.
- Protect by default: show no pornographic content before age verification.
- Offer at least one double anonymity method, in which an independent third party such as a bank, mobile operator or dedicated identity provider confirms a user is an adult without the pornographic site learning the user's identity and without the third party learning which site is being visited.
- Subject the age verification system to independent audits.
- Do not rely on a card based check: it was tolerated only until , pending deployment of a double anonymity method.
Arrêté du 26 février 2025 désignant les services établis dans un autre État membre de l'Union européenne soumis aux articles 10 et 10-1 de la loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 (Ministerial order of 26 February 2025 designating services established in another EU member state subject to the age verification regime)since 4 lines
Arrêté du 26 février 2025 (ministère de la culture, ministère chargé du numérique), published in the Journal officiel of · Read the law's page
- Applies to you only if your service is one of the 17 named pornographic websites and video sharing platforms established in other EU member states, including Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube (Aylo group) and xHamster (Hammy Media Ltd); the order applies from .
- If you are named, the age verification and blocking regime of LCEN articles 10 and 10-1 extends to you.
- A court challenge has not suspended the order: the Conseil d'Etat on set aside an interim suspension and restored the obligation with immediate effect.
- The Court of Justice of the EU held on that the country of origin principle stops a member state applying a general and abstract criminal-law obligation on minors' access to pornography to a provider established in another member state, but does not stop targeted measures requiring such a provider to verify its users' age, subject to the conditions of Article 3(4) of Directive 2000/31.