Duty LXD-6276
Serves under-18s, in Malaysia
Online Safety Act 2025, Child Protection Code, safe design and operation duty for services likely accessed by childrensince 8 lines
Online Safety Act 2025 (Act 866), Child Protection Code ss. 2, 4-7 (Child Safety by Design) · Read the law's page
- Applies to a licensed applications service provider or licensed content applications service provider; the Code covers any applications service enabling communication between users and any content applications service, and a child user is a person under 18.
- If your service is, in your opinion, likely to be accessed by child users, design and operate it to prevent a child's access to suspected harmful content and to limit features that increase or sustain a child's use of the service.
- Limit an identified adult's ability to communicate with an identified child, and prevent an identified adult from viewing an identified child's personal information.
- Set privacy and safety settings to the highest level by default for child users, and limit an unconnected adult's direct communication with a child user.
- Make parental control features available.
- Moderate content: detect and remove harmful content, provide accessible reporting channels for child users, and take steps against repeated exposure to reported or removed content.
- Control personalised recommendation systems so that they are suitable for child users and do not display or promote harmful content to them.
- Activate safe search by default.