by AVPA | Sep 26, 2022 | Thought Leadership
The French data protection authority (DPA) is the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL). This translates literally as the “National Commission for Computing and Liberties” and this perhaps provides some insight into their natural...
by AVPA | Sep 2, 2022 | News Release
PRESS RELEASE Age Verification providers warn ICO to learn lessons from their French and German counterparts when trying to regulate the porn industry London, 2 September – The trade body representing leading suppliers of technology to anonymously verify the age of...
by AVPA | Sep 1, 2022 | Thought Leadership
How do you regulate a foreign porn site? It may be the world-wide web, but governments are still generally national not international (the EU being the exception which proves that rule), so how can any one state hope to regulate the global Internet? Well, it is not...
by AVPA | Aug 28, 2022 | Thought Leadership
There has been some controversy in Germany after a recent series of tweets demonstrated that it may be possible to tamper with real government-issed ID documents, and fool online identity checks Die erste von Andreas Scheuer vorgestellte Führerschein-App...
by AVPA | Aug 28, 2022 | Thought Leadership
We have been reflecting further on the recent Joint Opinion by the European Data Protection Board and their Supervisor. It is important to put these comments in their proper context. This is an opinion on a very specific issue (i.e. the European Commission’s proposals...
