EstoniaMeediateenuste seadus (Media Services Act) Section 19-1, Protection of Minors on a Video-Sharing Platform
Meediateenuste seadus § 19-1, RT I, 27.02.2022, 1
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to video-sharing platform operators as defined in the Media Services Act.
- Provide in your terms of service that the platform may not carry a programme, user-generated video or commercial communication that incites hatred, violence or discrimination on a protected ground endangering life, health or property, incites an offense, or depicts child pornography.
- Give users an easy way to flag such content, and remove or block access to prohibited content once you are aware of it.
- For content that may impair a minor's physical, mental or moral development but is not prohibited, either add a clear warning and an on-screen symbol throughout, or make it accessible only through personal identification codes or another appropriate technical solution that makes it inaccessible to a minor in the ordinary case.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet (TTJA)
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which technical solutions other than personal identification codes count as 'teiste asjakohaste tehniliste lahenduste' that make content unavailable to a minor 'tavaolukorras' under Section 19-1(5) of the Meediateenuste seadus, when the Act names no standard for what is appropriate?
What it reaches
Covered services
Video-sharing platforms as defined by the Meediateenuste seadus, transposing the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Operator establishment
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 19^1 requires terms of use, warnings, reporting tools, access restrictions and a complaint procedure, and Section 19^2 bars commercial use of minors' data collected through the technical measures; the act states no duty to create or keep a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A video-sharing platform operator must provide in its terms of service that the platform may not carry a programme, user-generated video or commercial communication that incites hatred, violence or discrimination on a protected ground endangering life, health or property, incites an offense, or depicts child pornography. Content that may impair a minor's physical, mental or moral development must carry a clear warning and an on-screen symbol throughout.
The operator must provide an easy way for users to flag such content, must remove or block access to prohibited content once aware of it, and for harmful-but-not-prohibited content must either add the warning and symbol or ensure the content is accessible only through personal identification codes or another appropriate technical solution that makes it inaccessible to a minor in the ordinary case. A user may complain to the Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet (TTJA) about how these duties are applied.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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