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Porn giant Aylo hit with FTC, Utah order over failure to block, remove CSAM

By Mike Swift ( September 3, 2025, 19:23 GMT | Insight) -- The US Federal Trade Commission and the state of Utah hit Aylo, operator of Pornhub and over 100 other porn websites, with a $5 million fine over the company’s hosting of child sexual abuse material and other non-consensual material, as well as data security violations for failing to keep safe personal age-verification data, in what FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak said should be a general warning from the FTC to any online platform that hosts such content.Porn site owner Aylo will pay $5 million for allegedly hosting child sexual abuse material, in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission and Utah that includes privacy requirements for age-verification data, and that carries a broad warning for online platforms....

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