GreeceLaw 4779/2021 Article 32, Video-Sharing Platform and Social Network Minor Protection Duties
Law 4779/2021 (Nomos 4779/2021), FEK A' 27/20.02.2021, art. 32, transposing AVMSD art. 28b
In force since .
A social media and minors rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment
- Obligation class
- Age verification, Design code, Reporting
- Audit expectation
- continuous
- Who audits it
- Regulator
- Where the report goes
- Filed with regulator
What it requires
- Applies only to video-sharing platforms and social networks established in Greece whose video content is functionally separable from the rest of the service.
- Take appropriate and feasible measures to protect minors from content that may impair their development.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Also protect the wider public from content inciting violence or hatred, or amounting to child pornography, terrorism, xenophobia or racism offences under EU law.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Apply the strictest access-control measures to the most harmful content, including, as appropriate, systems that verify platform users' ages and parental-control systems, so that minors cannot reach content that may harm their physical, psychological or moral development.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Submit data to the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) every year: complaints received and resolved by category, out-of-court settlements, and the parental-control or age-verification systems and media-literacy measures you adopted.NIST Privacy FrameworkGV.PO-P5
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In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- GV.PO-P5Legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements regarding privacy are understood and managed.
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-DET-004AI System Observability
- AIR-DET-021Agent Decision Audit and Explainability
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST Privacy Framework, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (ESR), the National Council for Radio and Television
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which of the measures that Article 32 of Law 4779/2021 lists, including age-verification and parental-control systems, must a given video-sharing platform or social network take, when the ESR describes the measures as proportionate and feasible and as ones that 'may include, case by case' the listed tools?
- When is video content on a social network 'λειτουργικά διαχωρίσιμο' (functionally separable) from the rest of the service, so that Article 32 of Law 4779/2021 reaches the network?
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator
Logging duty
Article 32(10) makes a video-sharing platform established in Greece submit figures to the National Council for Radio and Television every year: complaints received and answered by category, cases settled out of court, reports and flags about harmful or illegal content, and the parental-control and age-verification systems it uses. The Article does not use the words log or record, but none of those figures can be produced without keeping a register of complaints and flags.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Law 4779/2021, Article 32(10)
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Article 32 of Law 4779/2021 assigns the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) to apply AVMSD Article 28b to video-sharing platforms and social networks established in Greece whose video content is functionally separable from the rest of the service.
The duty requires appropriate and feasible measures protecting minors from content that may impair their development, and separately protects the wider public from content inciting violence or hatred or amounting to child pornography, terrorism, xenophobia, or racism offences under EU law. For the protection of minors, the most harmful content is subject to the strictest access-control measures, under Article 32 paragraph 6.
Those measures include, as the case requires, systems that verify the age of platform users, so that minors cannot reach content that may harm their physical, psychological or moral development. They include, as the case requires, parental-control systems for the same purpose.
A covered provider must submit data to ESR annually under Article 32 paragraph 10, covering complaints received and resolved by category, out-of-court settlements, and the parental-control or age-verification systems and media-literacy measures adopted. ESR's competence reaches only providers established in Greece. ESR may impose sanctions for noncompliance under Article 36 of the same Law.
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