An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.
to check visitors’ ages when they access the sites from within that state. Stabile says some porn sites have introduced age checks, while “most have just blocked the state.” In both France and Germany, regulators have asked the biggest pornography websites to implement age verification in recent years and taken them to court when they haven’t done so. Germany has tried to block porn site xHamster and is nowwhen they post adult content on sites that don’t have age verification, like Twitter.
“While there are multiple proposed laws on age verification throughout the world, we are not aware of any, thus far, that achieve their aim of protecting children from age-inappropriate material online,” says a spokesperson for MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub and other giant adult sites YouPorn and Redtube. They say that within Louisiana, MindGeek is one of a “small handful” following the laws and claim it has “pushed traffic to adult platforms with far fewer safety measures in place.
“In order to achieve tangible outcomes and safeguard the interests of young people, it is imperative to regulate not just individual websites but the industry as a whole,” says Alex Hawkins, vice president of porn website xHamster. “Ensuring global standards uniformity is of vital importance, as applying varying regulations to each country or state would prove extremely difficult to implement and maintain.
While lawmakers and regulators are pushing for age verification, that doesn’t mean people will use it. For widespread adoption, people wiould have to trust the systems. “Mandating that users must hand over more sensitive information about themselves than they previously did is fundamentally anti-private,” says Daly Barnett, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Some regulators agree. France’s data regulator, CNIL, which is regarded as one of the most effective in Europe, has looked at the privacy of current age-verification systems and found them lacking. In July 2022, CNIL
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