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Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, obscene communications depicting children

Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, s.424

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Place of effect
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not create, publish, distribute, transmit, collect, download, advertise, promote, or exchange any text, digital image, or other material depicting a child in an obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit manner; this offence does not require the depicted child to be a real, identifiable person.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

ICMA s.424 grades this offence a felony of the fourth degree. Under the Penal Code of Bhutan (as amended by the Penal Code (Amendment) Act of Bhutan 2011 and 2021), Part One, Chapter 3 (Sentencing), s.11, a felony of the fourth degree carries imprisonment of a minimum of three years and a maximum of less than five years.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Section 424 is a criminal prohibition on obscene or indecent material depicting children and names no logging, record-keeping, or documentation duty.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Section 424 makes it a felony of the fourth degree for a person to publish, distribute, or transmit an obscene communication or material depicting children engaged in a sexually explicit act, or to create text or digital images, collect, seek, browse, download, advertise, promote, exchange, or distribute material in any form depicting children in an obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit manner, or to record own or another's abuse of a child in a sexually explicit act.

The offence's second limb criminalises creating a digital image or text depicting a child in that manner without requiring that the depicted child be a real, identifiable person, so on the section's own text it reaches a computer-generated or AI-synthesized depiction of a child in the same terms as one derived from a real photograph.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app generates text with AI, generates images with AI, generates video with AI, crawls the web or publishes adult content.

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