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# France — Children & Vulnerable Groups | Data Protection Monitor

### D9Children & Vulnerable Groups5 sub-modulesAmber▾#

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

Primary framework GDPR Art 8 + Loi Informatique et Libertés Art 45 + Loi SREN (2024)

Supervisory authority [CNIL](https://www.cnil.fr/)

Traffic-light rationale — Amber Strong 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)

#### Parental ConsentGreen

Article 45 LIL sets the digital consent age at 15; below that age, joint minor-and-parent consent is required for non-contractual, consent-based online processing.

Claims (1):

- CLM-FR-a10033f9 (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 narrative 49 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

Evidence 0 — none recorded