MexicoDecree on Safe Digital Environments for Children and Adolescents, removal, reporting and cooperation duties of digital platforms
In force since .
A notice and action rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Reporting, Retention
As of .
What it requires
- Identify and remove immediately any account or content that generates or promotes a prohibition in Article 3 of the decree: harassment and cyberbullying, sexual abuse, exploitation or violence, hate speech and violent extremism, user-to-user content that incites hatred or violence, unlawful conduct or apology for crime, pornography and explicit sexual material, and suicide, self-harm and eating disorders (Article 4, item IV).
- Provide accessible, visible and permanently available mechanisms for users to report such accounts or content promptly (Article 4, item V).
- Designate a direct, specialized contact point for the authorities that investigate and administer justice, available 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, with immediate technical capacity to act on user-generated content, to answer the information requests of the competent authorities (Article 5, item I).
- When you remove an account or content, preserve any digital evidence for at least 90 business days, so that it stays intact and available for delivery to the requesting authorities (Article 5, item II).
- Inform and alert the competent national authorities immediately of accounts or content that threaten the life, dignity, safety, integrity or privacy of children and adolescents (Article 5, item III).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
Article 2 defines a digital platform as a digital service provided by intermediaries over the Internet that lets users interact, communicate and create, share or distribute content, including social networks, video games and app stores.
Article 3 prohibits a digital platform from allowing a child or adolescent access to, exposure to or a recommendation of content, especially images and videos, that generates or promotes harassment and cyberbullying, sexual abuse, exploitation or violence, hate speech and violent extremism, user-to-user content that incites hatred or violence, unlawful conduct or apology for crime, pornography and explicit sexual material, and suicide, self-harm and eating disorders.
Article 4, item IV, requires a digital platform to identify and remove immediately any account or content that generates or promotes a prohibition in Article 3. Article 4, item V, requires a digital platform to provide accessible, visible and permanently available mechanisms for users to report such accounts or content promptly.
Article 5, item I, requires a digital platform to designate a direct, specialized contact point for the authorities that investigate and administer justice, available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with immediate technical capacity to act on user-generated content.
Article 5, item II, requires a digital platform, when it removes an account or content, to preserve any digital evidence for at least 90 business days, to guarantee its integrity and availability for delivery to the requesting authorities. Article 5, item III, requires a digital platform to inform and alert the competent national authorities immediately of accounts or content that threaten the life, dignity, safety, integrity or privacy of children and adolescents. The decree takes effect on the day of its publication in the Diario Oficial de la Federación.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app operates a social platform.