The SREN law, which was enacted in May 2024, aims to ensure that online public communication service providers – including websites, apps, on-demand audiovisual media services providers – that make pornographic content available to the public under their editorial responsibility and video-sharing platform services providing pornographic content are not accessible to minors. Arcom published the standard on 9 October 2024, after the French data protection authority the CNIL provided its opinion on its reference document on age verification systems. According to the law the verification age system provider must be legally and technically independent from the platform service, and the verification age system must not allow the recognition of a user who has already used the system by the platform service and any third party participating in this system, nor the recognition of the source or method by which it was obtained.