There are the limits of the age verification imposed by the legislator there. With the generalization of the verification of the age of users who want to visit a pornographic site, many of them have opted for several techniques. One of them is to use Agego services. Problem: Agego has based its verification service in English legislation, much less respectful of privacy, so that for a French user, anonymity is simply not guaranteed.
According to AI Forensics revelations, which analyzed the transmission of service data, when a user wishes to be, the video sequence (webcam or the chamber of a smartphone) verified) to scan the face, but also the IP address and the browser agent (a code that indicates browser information), but also the email, they are transmitted to Amazon (AWS).
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Contacted by Tech & Co, one of the pornographic sites that use this system explains that it has configured it “in emergency” against repeated Arch requests, the sector’s regulator.
To go beyond verification, there are techniques in the margin, in particular the use of a VPN, but those that operate are paid, but also of specific DNS such as NEXTDNS that allows you to pretend to be a user who does not live in France.
Contacted, the CNIL, who governs personal data, and ARCH, has not yet responded to the requests for comments from Tech & Co. questioned by The ParisianHowever, the regulator explains to work in the AI Forensics Report analysis. The beginning of the solution could be found in the coming months with the launch of the tests of a European application, announced for the summer of 2025, but not yet available. This should be in accordance with the laws of different countries that have established this verification.
Source: BFM TV
