Aylo has also\u00a0pulled out of a number of US states<\/a>, again over the issue of checking the ages of its users.<\/p>\n All sites offering sexually explicit material in the UK will soon also have to offer more robust “age assurance.”<\/p>\n Aylo, formerly Mindgeek, also runs sites such as Youporn and RedTube, which will also become unavailable to French customers.<\/p>\n It is owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners.<\/p>\n Their vice president for compliance, Solomon Friedman, called the French law “dangerous,” “potentially privacy-infringing” and “ineffective”.<\/p>\n “Google,\u00a0Apple\u00a0and\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0all\u00a0have\u00a0the\u00a0capability\u00a0built\u00a0into\u00a0their\u00a0operating\u00a0system\u00a0to\u00a0verify\u00a0the\u00a0age\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0user\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0operating\u00a0system\u00a0or\u00a0device\u00a0level,”\u00a0he said on a video call reported by Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n Another executive, Alex Kekesi, said the company was pro-age verification, but there were concerns over the privacy of users.<\/p>\n In some cases, users may have to enter credit cards or government ID details in order to prove their age.<\/p>\n French minister for gender equality, Aurore Berg\u00e9, wrote “au revoir” in response to the news that Pornhub was pulling out of France.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0post on X [in French]<\/a>, she wrote: “There will be less violent, degrading and humiliating content accessible to minors in France.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The UK has its own age verification law, with platforms required to have\u00a0“robust” age checks by July<\/a>, according to media regulator Ofcom.<\/p>\n These may include facial detection software which estimates a user’s age.<\/p>\n In April – in response to messaging platform Discord\u00a0testing face scanning software<\/a>\u00a0– experts predicted it would be “the start of a bigger shift” in age checks in the UK, in which facial recognition tech played a bigger role.<\/p>\n BBC News has asked Aylo whether it will block its sites in the UK too when the laws come in.<\/p>\n In May, Ofcom announced it was\u00a0investigating two pornography websites<\/a>\u00a0which had failed to detail how they were preventing children from accessing their platforms.<\/p>\n Two porn sites investigated for suspected age check failings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Pornhub and three other porn sites face EU child safety probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Discord’s face scanning age checks ‘start of a bigger shift’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Privacy-infringing’<\/span><\/h2>\n
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