Pornhub owner pays a $ 5 million settlement to FTC due to historical failure to prevent abusive content

The owner of Pornhub aylo will pay a A 5 million dollar settlement To the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) and UTAH due to allegations that the company has benefited from children’s sexual assault materials (CSAM) and abnormal materials (NCM).

Previously, MindGeek, Aylo made some important changes in the way in which the content is running in late 2020, when the New York Times is Publish an exhibition It explains how Pornhub – the most popular Aylo site in the portfolio – failed to prevent and remove CSAM and NCM downloads. It was only after pressing from Credit card operators The company began to verify the ages of all actors in the videos that have been uploaded and require documents proving the approval of the actors.

But FTC and UTAH claim that even after Aylo activated these guarantees, the company continued to host illegal content and irresponsible consumer data management.

According to FTC, Aylo failed to reveal that after checking their identities through a third party seller, Aylo got data from the seller to keep them indefinitely. This data, which is alleged FTC, has not been stored safely, can include social security numbers, addresses, birth dates and other information that can be found in government identifiers.

“Elo also told her models that she could” trust that their personal data is still safe, “FTC said, but she failed to use record safety measures to protect data.” “For example, Elle did not encrypt the personal data it stored, failed to reduce access to data, and the data was not stored behind the protection wall.”

FTC also claims that Aylo failed to keep her promise to prohibit users who tried to download CSAM. The complaint indicates that Aylo only prevented these users from creating a new account using the same username or email address.

Aylo also adheres to “fingerprints” videos that are suspected of CSAM, so if someone tries to download it to one of the hundreds of porn sites, it will be marked. But FTC claims that this technology was not effective from 2017 to August 2021 at least, which resulted in the re -download of hundreds of videos that were previously identified as CSAM.

Ilo entered Tayeb Khater in this settlement, which the company says “reaffirm (its efforts) to prevent the publication of CSAM and NCM”, according to a statement sent via e -mail to Techcrunch.

As part of the settlement, ILO must verify the approval and identity of any person appearing in images or videos downloaded. The company is also required to enact the policies, procedures and technical measures to prevent the deployment of CSAM and NCM and remove the published content before implementing this system.

“The decision reached by the decision involves improvements to the current measures, but it has not provided any new fundamental requirements that were not already present or under progress.”

During the next decade, AYLO will face independent checks on the third party to ensure that the company is committed to the terms of the settlement.