To comply with European and French law, six pornographic platforms deployed age-verification systems in August 2025. Many use AgeVerif, including tukif.com, where it is the sole verifier.

The report evaluates four criteria: accuracy, non-discrimination, resistance to circumvention, and independence between provider and platform.

Our research finds that:

• The dataset AgeVerif was trained on contains only ~7% minors, consequently around 10% of minors are granted access.
• Country thresholds vary: 20 in France, 25 in Germany, 23 elsewhere.
• Only 27% of training samples are non-white. Minors with darker skin tones are up to three times more likely to be misclassified as adults; South and East Asian adults are twice as likely to be wrongly denied access.

Beyond accuracy and fairness risks, we identified governance and security concerns:

• Public records indicate that AgeVerif shares a director with tukif and reference-sexe.
• The system can be bypassed by simply adding a cookie.