Popular porn site must delete all amateur videos posted without consent

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An Amsterdam court today ordered one of the largest adult entertainment websites, xHamster, to remove all amateur footage showing recognizable people in the Netherlands who did not consent to be featured on the site.

The ruling followed complaints raised by the Expertise Bureau for Online Child Abuse, known as EOKM, which identified 10 videos where xHamster could not verify it had secured permission from amateur performers to post. The court found that this violated European privacy laws and conflicted with a prior judgment from the Amsterdam court requiring porn sites to receive permission from all performers recognizably featured before posting amateur videos.

“It is a victory for the rights and privacy of victims whose nude images were published without demonstrable consent,” EOKM said in a press release provided to Ars.

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Author: Ashley Belanger. [Source Link (*), Ars Technica – All content]

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