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France: Children & Vulnerable Groups

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Strong evidence on age of consent, parental consent and age-verification privacy safeguards; education-settings and dependent-adults sub-modules remain gaps.

Primary frameworkGDPR Art 8 + Loi Informatique et Libertés Art 45 + Loi SREN (2024)
Supervisory authorityCNIL
Traffic-light rationale — AmberStrong evidence on age of consent, parental consent and age-verification privacy safeguards; education-settings and dependent-adults sub-modules remain gaps.

Sub-modules (5)

Age VerificationAmber

Arcom must adopt a technical référentiel for pornography-site age verification under the SREN law; CNIL opined on the draft on 26 September 2024 and favours privacy-preserving, locally-generated proof-of-majority methods over facial recognition.

Claims (2):

  • CLM-FR-a10031d7 (claim on file)
  • CLM-FR-a10032e8 (claim on file)

Minor Profiling BansAmber

CNIL has translated GDPR's minors provisions into recommendations for stronger safeguards against default profiling of under-18 users.

Claims (1):

  • CLM-FR-a10034g0 (claim on file)

Education SettingsRed

No FR-specific education-settings DP findings surfaced this cycle.

Absence provenance: unavailable. Searched: unavailable.

Dependent AdultsRed

No FR-specific dependent-adults/vulnerable-adult DP findings surfaced this cycle.

Absence provenance: unavailable. Searched: unavailable.

Category narrative49 words

France sets the digital age of consent at 15 (Article 45 LIL), requiring joint minor-plus-parent consent below that age. The SREN law and Arcom age-verification référentiel (subject to CNIL opinion) address pornography-site access, with CNIL favouring privacy-preserving verification methods. Education-settings and dependent-adults protections were not separately evidenced this cycle.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief