The Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) wants to temporarily make identification by bank card compulsory. Arcom ultimately wishes to impose double identification at each consultation, upon presentation of an identity document, a bank card or via an age verification system using facial analysis.
According to Arcom, 2.3 million minors visit pornographic sites in France. From the age of 12, more than half of boys using the Internet visit these sites on average every month. The project will be able to receive contributions from various players in the sector until May 13 and will only come into force after the promulgation of the law to “secure” the internet (SREN), definitively adopted on Wednesday. The law gives Arcom the power to order, without the assistance of a judge, the blocking by telecom operators and the delisting of pornographic sites that do not prevent minors from accessing their content. In the case of a site hosted in a country of the European Union, an appeal must be made to the local authorities.