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German organisation for monitoring the provisions of the State Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media
Germany requires adult websites and other “telemedia” services to implement reliable age verification systems that confirm users are 18+; regulators now enforce compliance with techniques such as ID c...
By mid‑2025 several Western jurisdictions had active mandatory age‑verification rules for adult websites: the UK’s Online Safety Act began enforcing “strong age checks” on July 25, 2025 , France enact...
Governments in multiple regions now require enforced age verification for adult websites: a major wave of U.S. states have passed laws obliging sites that host “substantial” adult content to verify us...
Germany’s legal baseline has long set 18 as the minimum age for access to pornographic material under criminal law and youth-protection rules; the Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the ...
Germany’s age rules for producing, distributing and accessing pornography are governed mainly by the Criminal Code (StGB) — especially §§ 184, 184a–c for pornographic offences involving adults, violen...
Digital age-verification for German performers typically uses identity-document checks plus biometric face matching or digital-wallet cryptographic proofs so sites receive only a “verified over‑18” as...