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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.

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