“The French regulator Arcom has introduced strict new rules to ensure that only adults can access platforms with pornographic content,” it says. Temporary methods like bank card verification will no longer suffice: the law requires that pornographic websites “only use age checks that are effective, privacy-preserving and data minimizing” and “offer users at least one ‘double blind approach’” – which, Yoti explains, “means the platform only receives confirmation that the user is of legal age, and the age verification provider does not know which platform the user is visiting.” The law also makes it mandatory to use a third-party age assurance provider “that is legally and technically independent of any online platform hosting or providing porn content.”