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France has definitively adopted Bill No. 339, establishing a general prohibition on access to online social networking services for children under fifteen years of age. The legislation, part of a broader international movement to regulate minors' access to social networks, creates significant compliance challenges for online platforms that must now determine whether their services fall within the law's scope and implement age-verification mechanisms that integrate safety by design.

On July 3, 2008, the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris ruled that search engines were to be considered as hosts, therefore rejecting the qualification of publisher and liability deriving thereof by law.