A age certification system is being developed for an implementation scheduled for September 2023, explains, to the “Parisian”, Jean-Noël Barrot, the Minister Delegate in charge of Digital.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
“In 2023, this is the end of access to pornographic sites for our children”: Jean-Noël Barrot, the Minister Delegate in charge of Digital, promises that France will impose an age certification system In order to block access to pornographic websites for minors.
The details of the system will be presented during the week, but all the websites for adults “will have to comply with it, otherwise the dissemination prohibited on the national territory,” said Sunday, February 5 in an interview with the Parisian , the Minister Delegate. According to him, “France will be the first country in the world to offer a solution like this”. Its implementation is scheduled “from September”.
Age certification must go through a “digital certificate” whose technical details are not yet finalized. The goal will be to preserve the anonymity of the user from the point of view of the websites. “Telecom operators, who have the age of their customers, could for example be in the loop,” says daily.
“This technical solution on which we work can be used to enforce the age limits that exist in our law, but which are not sufficiently respected online,” said Barrot.
The question of personal data protection
Currently, pornographic sites ask the user to certify his age by entering a date of birth, or even more simply by pressing a box to say “I am Major”.
The United Kingdom also tries to better filter this access, with its bill on online security, under discussion in Parliament. The government wants to make the implementation of reliable age verification technology chosen by websites.
In Louisiana, a state in the south of the United States, a law has obliged since the 1 er January to present a copy of an identity document before being able to enter the websites having at least a third of their content which is “detrimental to minors”.
If the objective of making access to pornography for minors is more difficult is widely shared, the various projects for the implementation of an age verification in the world have come up against the question of the Protection of personal data.