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French porn-site privacy quandary over age checks sees government and regulator team up to find an answer

By Matthew Newman
  • 07 Dec 2022 17:41
  • 07 Dec 2022 19:34
The French government and data protection authority are working together on the problem of how to verify web surfers’ ages to ensure that children can't access pornography sites, a senior French official said today.
Under a 2020 decree that amended a law on domestic violence, pornography websites must prevent access

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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