Duty LXD-6406
Operates an app store, in Singapore
Code of Practice for Online Safety, App Distribution Servicessince 7 lines
Code of Practice for Online Safety, App Distribution Services, issued under s. 45L of the Broadcasting Act 1994 · Read the law's page
- Applies only to App Distribution Services designated (or to be designated) under section 45K(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1994; the duties stated fall on the provider of the designated service.
- Minimise all users' exposure to harmful content (sexual content, violent content, suicide and self-harm content, cyberbullying content, content endangering public health, and content facilitating vice and organised crime) through content guidelines and content moderation of the apps you distribute.
- For children (anyone below 18), have systems and processes, including age verification or another means of age assurance, so that a user's age or age range can be established with reasonable accuracy.
- Unless you restrict children's access entirely, give a child's account differentiated, more restrictive default settings.
- Implement age assurance consistently with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012's data-protection provisions and the Personal Data Protection Commission's guidelines on children's personal data, including data minimisation.
- If you have not yet implemented age assurance, submit an implementation plan and timeline to IMDA for its agreement.
- Use technology to proactively detect and swiftly remove child sexual exploitation and abuse material.