IrelandOnline Safety Code, Part B (age assurance for pornography and violent content)
Online Safety Code (Coimisiún na Meán, adopted , published ), Part B
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to designated video sharing platforms established in Ireland that allow pornography or gratuitous violence; the designated services include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and Udemy.
- Implement effective age assurance so that children are not normally able to access pornography or gratuitous violence on the platform.
- Do not rely on self declaration alone: Coimisiún na Meán has stated it does not satisfy the requirement, though it has not mandated one specific verification method.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Coimisiún na Meán (guidance, recorded ).
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionNo
Penalties
Compliance notices, administrative financial sanctions, and referral for prosecution of noncompliance
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Coimisiún na Meán
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://www.cnam.ie/investigation-commenced-into-x-under-online-safety-code/
- Guidance body
- Coimisiún na Meán
- Open questions
- Beyond the exclusion of age assurance "based solely on self-declaration" in Section 12(10) of the Online Safety Code, which method of age assurance counts as effective so that children cannot normally see pornography or gratuitous violence on a designated video-sharing platform?
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Designated video-sharing platforms established in Ireland carrying pornographic or gratuitous violent content
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Operator establishment
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator
Logging duty
Section 17.3 requires a video-sharing platform service provider to report to the Commission every 3 months, or at other intervals the Commission specifies, on its handling of communications from users raising complaints or other matters. Section 16 makes the provider handle user complaints about age assurance, content rating, parental controls and reporting and flagging. The Code does not use the words log or record, but the report cannot be made without keeping the complaints and their outcomes. Section 9.3 in Part A, outside Part B, separately requires systems and controls to demonstrate compliance.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Online Safety Code, section 17.3 (Part B)
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Requires designated video sharing platforms that allow pornography or gratuitous violence to implement effective age assurance so children are not normally able to access that content. The designated services include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and Udemy. Coimisiún na Meán has stated that self declaration alone does not satisfy the requirement, though it has not mandated one specific verification method.
General child safety provisions under Part A of the Code took effect on , and the Part B age assurance obligations became binding on .
When LexLint raises it
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