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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Takes Action Against Another AI “Nudify” Service

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has begun enforcement action against another major AI-powered “nudify” service for allegedly failing to protect Australian children from exposure to sexually explicit deepfake content. According to eSafety, the service allows users to upload images of real people and generate sexually explicit deepfake content on demand. eSafety issued a formal Direction to Comply to the service, giving it 14 days to implement stronger protections to prevent children from accessing the service. The action is significant because it shows that Australia’s online safety regulator is moving quickly against AI services that create or facilitate sexualized deepfake content, particularly where…

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FTC Sends Warning Letters Over Take It Down Act Compliance

The Federal Trade Commission has begun enforcing the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act and has already sent warning letters to companies that the FTC believes may be out of compliance. The first wave of letters targeted websites offering so-called “nudify” tools, which can be used to create nonconsensual, sexualized images from clothed images. The FTC’s action is an important signal for platforms that host, publish, transmit, curate, or otherwise make available user-generated content, intimate content, AI-generated content, digitally altered images, messaging content, livestreams, comments, or other media. Covered platforms are now expected to have a clear process for receiving and…

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Not so Sweet Alabama – How the State Became One of the Most Hostile Jurisdictions for the Adult Industry

Over the past two years, Alabama has quietly — but aggressively — transformed itself into one of the most restrictive and unfriendly jurisdictions in the United States for the adult entertainment industry. Through the enactment of House Bill 164 and related enforcement mechanisms, the state has layered taxation, compliance burdens, and content restrictions in a way that goes far beyond traditional regulation. Featured In The May 2026 Edition Of XBIZ World Taken together, these measures — most notably a 10% tax on adult-content revenue, mandatory age verification requirements, and a notarization mandate for performer consent documents — have created a…

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It’s Time to Take the DSA and GDPR Seriously

Adult platforms have never been more visible to regulators than they are right now. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is fully in force across the EU, GDPR enforcement keeps accelerating, and parallel “online safety” regimes in the UK and U.S. are converging on the same targets: pornography sites, creator platforms, cam networks, and tube-style aggregators. If you operate an adult website and you’re still treating DSA and GDPR compliance as a “nice-to-have,” you’re sitting on a landmine. It’s time to get serious, and enforcement against adult operators has ramped up. Featured In The January 2026 Edition Of XBIZ World The…

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Florida’s AG Launches Aggressive Age Verification Enforcement, Targeting Tube Sites and Channel Partners

Urgent Compliance The landscape for the adult entertainment industry operating in Florida has changed from one of legal uncertainty to one of immediate, high-stakes compliance. Following the enactment of the state’s age verification law (HB 3) on January 1, 2025, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched an aggressive enforcement campaign, filing multiple complaints against major online platforms and their affiliates for openly defying the law. The clear message from the Attorney General’s office is that the time for passive observation is over. Any commercial entity that publishes or distributes material “harmful to minors” — defined as a “substantial portion”…

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Arizona Mandates Age Verification for Adult Websites, Raising Privacy and Access Concerns

House Bill 2112 Arizona has officially joined a growing list of states requiring commercial adult websites to implement robust age verification measures, aiming to prevent minors from accessing sexually explicit content. Governor Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2112 (HB2112) into law on May 13, 2025, a move that has been met with both applause from proponents of child protection and significant concerns from civil liberties advocates and the adult entertainment industry. Featured In The July 2025 Edition Of XBIZ World The new law, sponsored by State Representative Nick Kupper, mandates that websites where more than one-third of the content is…

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