BhutanInformation, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, protection of children in communications
Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, ss.348-349, 351
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to an ICT and Media facility or service provider and vendor, as the Act defines the term, including in respect of communications addressed to children or likely to be of particular interest to them.
- Make any communication addressed to children, or likely to be of particular interest to them, age-appropriate, and do not exploit their credulity, lack of experience or sense of loyalty (s. 348).
- Take all reasonable steps to prevent offensive communications being delivered to children and to prevent children being drawn into conducting business transactions of any kind (s. 349).
- Do not run an advertisement, in any form, aimed at taking advantage of a child's vulnerabilities (s. 351).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Covered services
An ICT and Media facility or service provider and vendor, as the Act defines the term, including a communication that is addressed to children or likely to be of particular interest to them
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 348, 349 and 351 require age-appropriate communications to children, reasonable steps against offensive communications and business transactions with children, and bar advertising aimed at children's vulnerabilities; none names a log or record, and section 350 (consent for a child's personal information) is a separate provision.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 348 requires that a communication addressed to children, or likely to be of particular interest to children, be age-appropriate, and prohibits exploiting the credulity, lack of experience, or sense of loyalty of children. Section 349 requires an ICT and Media facility or service provider and vendor to take all reasonable steps to prevent offensive communications being delivered to children and to prevent children from being drawn into conducting business transactions of any kind.
Section 351 bars an advertisement, in any form, that is aimed at taking advantage of a child's vulnerabilities. A separate provision in the same chapter, section 350, additionally bars an ICT or media provider from collecting or disclosing a child's personal information without a parent's or guardian's express, verifiable consent; because that duty attaches to personal data rather than to content or advertising, it is not carried on this instrument.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
Back to the example · Lint your app
Page updated .