Duty LXD-6250
Serves under-18s, in Ireland
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Data Protection Act 2018, section 31 (digital age of consent)since 3 lines
Data Protection Act 2018, No. 7 of 2018, s. 31 · Read the law's page
- Applies to information society services, including social media platforms, offered directly to children in Ireland, where a child's consent is the basis for processing their personal data.
- Treat 16 as the minimum age at which a child can consent to the processing of their personal data, including when registering for a social media account; for a child under 16, consent must be given or authorised by a parent or guardian.
- You need not verify identity under this rule: it is a data protection consent rule, not a mandated identity verification requirement.
Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 — Content Moderation and Harmful Content Obligationssince 3 lines
Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 (No. 41 of 2022); Online Safety Code (Coimisiun na Mean, October 2024)
- If you operate a video-sharing platform or other online service designated under the Online Safety Code, include in your terms and conditions measures protecting children and the public from harmful content.
- If you operate a video-sharing platform or other online service designated under the Online Safety Code, assess and mitigate the risks posed by your content-delivery and recommendation mechanisms.
- Do not rely on simple self-declaration for age verification.
Artificial Intelligence Companion Services (Protection of Children) Bill 2026proposed7 lines
Artificial Intelligence Companion Services (Protection of Children) Bill 2026 (Bill 93 of 2026) · Read the law's page
- A provider that makes an AI chatbot available within the State must not make an AI companion service or an intimate AI service available to a child, meaning a person under the age of 16.
- Do not advertise, promote, recommend or otherwise direct an AI companion service or an intimate AI service towards a child, and do not use profiling, recommender systems or behavioural advertising techniques to promote a prohibited service to a child.
- Take appropriate and proportionate measures to determine whether a user is a child; requiring a user to self-declare age is not enough on its own.
- Ensure that a child is prevented from accessing a prohibited service, and carry out age-assurance measures consistently with the Data Protection Act 2018 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
- Ensure that an AI chatbot clearly identifies itself as an artificial intelligence system, in a manner that is clear, prominent and comprehensible to users.
- Do not design, develop or operate an AI companion service so that it falsely represents that the system is a natural person, possesses consciousness, possesses legal personality or experiences human emotions.
- Comply with an information notice within the period it specifies, and with a direction that Coimisiún na Meán issues to cease making a service available to children, implement specified age-assurance measures or remove a specified chatbot persona.