NigeriaCode of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries, child-content control duty
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Data subject residence
- Obligation class
- Content labelling, Design code
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to all Interactive Computer Service Platforms and Internet Intermediaries operating in Nigeria, defined broadly to include social media operators, websites, blogs, media-sharing sites, discussion forums, streaming platforms and gaming platforms.
- Label, censor, redact or otherwise apply access control so that content inappropriate for a child, such as sexually explicit content or images of violence, is not viewable to a child.
- Tell users through your terms of service not to create, publish, modify, transmit, store or share content harmful to a child.
- In assessing whether content is harmful, consider the risk that its dissemination could have a physical or psychological impact on a child or an adult.
- Ensure your community rules specify how children will be protected from harmful content they may encounter.
- You need not use any particular age-verification mechanism: the Code does not prescribe one.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Broadcasting Commission
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Part II requires a platform to preserve disabled or removed content and any related record as required by applicable law, and separately to preserve information about a person who is no longer a user, again as required by applicable law. It states no period, so no retention is coded. It names no age check, and states that no particular age-verification mechanism is prescribed in the cited text. The court-order and agency duties to provide information sit in other parts of the Code and are not borrowed.
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- NITDA Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries, Part II, item 5
What this law does
The Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries, issued by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) under section 6 of the NITDA Act, 2007 in collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Broadcasting Commission, applies to all Interactive Computer Service Platforms and Internet Intermediaries operating in Nigeria, a term the Code defines broadly to include social media operators, websites, blogs, media-sharing sites, discussion forums, streaming platforms, and gaming platforms.
Part II requires a Platform to label, censor, redact, or otherwise apply access control so that content inappropriate for a child, such as sexually explicit content or images of violence, is not viewable to a child. Part II also requires a Platform to inform users through its terms of service not to create, publish, modify, transmit, store, or share content harmful to a child.
A Platform must also give consideration, in assessing whether content is harmful, to the risk that its dissemination could have a physical or psychological impact on a child or an adult, and must ensure its community rules specify how children will be protected from harmful content they may encounter.
The Code does not itself prescribe an age-verification mechanism, and non-compliance is stated to be a breach of the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003, the National Broadcasting Commission Act, 2004, and the NITDA Act, 2007, rather than a penalty set out in the Code itself.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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