The United Kingdom’s digital regulator, Ofcom, announced Tuesday that it is investigating First Time Videos, a network of adult membership sites, for violating the age verification and assurance measures mandated by the country’s sweeping Online Safety Act.
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France could force mainstream social media platforms Bluesky and Reddit to verify the ages of their users or be banned from the country’s digital space due to their policies related to hosting pornography, sexually explicit materials, and nudity.
Law firms are filing federal class action lawsuits against several adult entertainment platforms alleging user data privacy rights violations, AVN has learned after an investigation. The Srourian Law Firm PC, based in Los Angeles, and Siri & Glimstad LLP, based in New York with offices in Los Angeles, have filed separate lawsuits against major platforms alleging violations of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Those being sued are the parent firms of Pornhub, Kink, Bellesa, and Redgifs.
France’s digital regulator, Arcom, might consider forcing X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to verify the age of its users. This is due to X confirming in their acceptable use policies that adult entertainment content, nudity, and sexually explicit material are allowed to be hosted on the platform.
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, beat Dish Network in a European patent court on Friday, Law360.com reports. The dispute was brought by Dish, a satellite and internet television provider based in Englewood, Colorado, which accuses Aylo of infringing upon its intellectual property related to rate-adaptive streaming.
The former owner of GirlsDoPorn, Michael Pratt, pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in a federal court in San Diego on Thursday. Local news wire City News Service (CNS), via ABC 10, indicates the charges include sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is drawing attention to a recent report about parental filters.
The European Commission is scrutinizing a French national age verification law out of concern that it conflicts with the E.U.’s Digital Services Act (DSA), legal news service MLex.com reports.
Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne of Québec reintroduced her national age verification law on Thursday with the intent of requiring all residents of Canada to verify their ages before viewing pornographic material on the internet.
Aylo Premium, a division of the parent company of Pornhub.com based in Montreal, Québec, was handed a legal victory Wednesday in an ongoing dispute over a video streaming patent registered by Dish Network, a satellite and streaming television service provider based in Englewood, Colorado.
