The FoxyPulse newsroom
Documenting policy, safety, privacy, technology, and creator-economy changes across the adult platform ecosystem.
Payments & Access
Mastercard’s February 2026 merchant rulebook ties adult card acceptance to uploader verification, consent records, content review, complaints, appeals, and monthly reporting.
Regulation & Rights
California’s July text for AB 1705 would add pre-upload consent certification, verified uploader contact details, and civil remedies. It remains an active bill, not current law.
Market Watch
Three policy threads are converging across adult technology: privacy-preserving age assurance, clearer disclosure and safety controls for companion AI, and more explicit creator-platform rules for referrals, payouts and moderation.
Trust & Safety
A 2026 empirical study of European adult-site age-verification deployments argues that implementation quality and privacy risk must be measured together. The open question is not whether an age-check logo appears,…
Regulation & Rights
The European Commission says its age-verification blueprint became feature-ready in April 2026. The next phase is implementation: member states and services must customise, integrate and audit the approach while preserving…
Regulation & Rights
California now has an enacted companion-chatbot law, while other states are testing related duties. The useful signal is not uniformity, but a common evidence checklist.
Regulation & Rights
Ofcom’s first statutory report on the use of age assurance shifts attention from buying a vendor to proving the complete check is effective, private and supportable.
Regulation & Rights
China’s interim measures took effect on 15 July 2026 and convert disclosure, dependency, minor safety, interaction-data and exit controls into a concrete workflow.