Pornhub owner Aylo will pay $5 million settlement The company said the company had said it was against the FTC and Utah allegations about the company’s intention to profit from child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and involuntary materials (NCM).
Aylo was formerly Mindgeek and made some major changes to how content was adjusted by the end of 2020 An exposure was published Shows how Aylo’s most popular portfolio website PornHub cannot prevent and delete uploads of CSAM and NCM. Just after the pressure Credit card operator The company began verifying the age of all actors in uploaded videos and required documents that prove the actors’ consent.
But the FTC and Utah claim that even if Aylo enacts these safeguards, the company continues to host illegal content and manage consumer data irresponsibly.
According to the FTC, Aylo failed to disclose that the performer verified his identity through a third-party supplier, Aylo obtained data from the supplier to hold it indefinitely. The FTC claims that data not stored securely may include information that can be found on social security numbers, addresses, birthdays and other government IDs.
“Aylo also told its models that they can ‘believe that their personal data is still secure’ but fail to use standard security measures to protect the data,” the FTC said in a press release. “For example, Aylo does not encrypt the personal data it stores, and cannot limit access to the data, nor does it store the data behind a firewall.”
The FTC also claims that Aylo failed to fulfill its promise to ban users who attempt to upload CSAM. The complaint says that AYLO only prohibits these users from creating new accounts using the same username or email address.
Aylo also promises that the “fingerprint” video is suspected to be CSAM, so if someone tries to upload it to one of its hundreds of porn sites, it will be tagged. But the FTC claims that the technology is invalid from at least 2017 to August 2021, resulting in hundreds of videos previously identified as CSAM being re-uploaded.
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Aylo is willing to join the settlement and the company said it “reiterates it [its] According to the statement sent to TechCrunch, efforts to prevent CSAM and NCM releases.
As part of the solution, Aylo must verify the consent and identity of anyone who appears in the uploaded photo or video. The company is also ordered to develop policies, procedures and technical measures to prevent the release of CSAM and NCM and to remove published content before implementing this system.
“The resolution reached involves enhancements to existing measures, but does not introduce any new substantive requirements that have not been met or are ongoing,” Aylo said.
Over the next decade, Aylo will face independent third-party audits to ensure the company complies with the terms of the settlement.
