Duty LXD-6253
Serves under-18s, in Iceland
Lög um fjölmiðla nr. 38/2011, Protection of Minors and Video-Sharing Platform Age Verificationsince 5 lines
Lög um fjölmiðla nr. 38/2011 (Media Act), 28. gr. og V. kafli A (36. gr. a-d), eins og þeim var breytt með lögum nr. 27/2024 · Read the law's page
- Article 28 binds media service providers that distribute audio or video content; Articles 36.a and 36.d bind video-sharing platform providers established in Iceland or directing content to the Icelandic public.
- Do not distribute content, including commercial audio or video communications, that could have a harmful effect on a child's physical, mental or moral development, in particular pornography or gratuitous violence; linear programming has exceptions for watershed hours, technical restriction and news content.
- Video-sharing platforms: take appropriate measures to protect children from content, user-generated content and commercial communications that could harm their physical, mental or moral development.
- Establish and operate an age-verification system for users with regard to content that could harm a child's physical, mental or moral development, alongside a flagging system, a user-controlled parental-control system and media-literacy measures.
- Do not process a child's personal data collected under the parental-control or age-verification measures for commercial purposes such as direct marketing or profiling.