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  • What Happens When You Delete a Cam Account?

    Deleting your account is not the same as erasing your data. All six platforms reviewed describe retaining some information after closure, including financial, fraud, verification or compliance records.

  • Are Private Cam Shows, Chats, Microphones or Camera Feeds Recorded?

    “Private” on cam sites means access-restricted, not unrecorded. Most platforms reserve the right to record or monitor private sessions for compliance. Here is what six major platforms’ terms actually say.

  • Payment Privacy on Cam Sites: What They Store and Who Processes It

    Major cam sites route payments through third-party processors. Three of the six platforms in this research explicitly address card storage; CAM4 is the only platform that publicly documents its billing descriptor as GRANITY ENTERTAINMENT. Here’s what the six platforms publicly state about their payment data practices.

  • How Age Verification Works on Cam Platforms

    Age verification on cam platforms runs on two separate tracks. Performers go through a real identity-verification process involving government ID, biometrics in some cases, and third-party processors. The viewer-side process is not described in any of the six platform policies reviewed. Here’s what six platforms document about the performer track, and where documentation runs out.

  • How Live Cam Streaming Works: WebRTC, HLS, Latency and Browser Permissions

    Cam streams don’t travel from performer to your browser directly. They move through platform servers first. That relay shapes latency, enables content monitoring, and explains why a camera permission prompt has nothing to do with passive viewing.