RussiaFederal Law No. 149-FZ, Article 10.6, Social Network Minor-Protection Monitoring Duty
Federal Law No. 149-FZ, Art. 10.6 (added 2020)
In force since .
A social media and minors rule binding private bodies.
- Covered services
- social networks with more than 500,000 Russia-based daily users
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- User location
- Obligation class
- Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies only to the owner of a Russian-language (or Russian minority-language) website, information system or program that lets users distribute information through personal pages, where daily access exceeds 500,000 Russia-based internet users (a “social network owner”).
- Monitor the social network for, among other things, child sexual abuse material, advertisements recruiting minors as performers in pornographic events, drug-related content, suicide-related content, and material inducing minors into unlawful acts that endanger their life or health.
- Publish an annual report on complaint handling and monitoring results.
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What it makes you log
Logging duty
A social network owner must monitor the network for the content the article lists and publish an annual report on the results of handling user complaints and of that monitoring. A report of results cannot be produced without a record of the complaints handled and the monitoring done, but the article names no log, record or retention period, and no check of a user age.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Federal Law No. 149-FZ, art. 10.6(1), items 5 and 7
What this law does
Article 10.6, added by Federal Law No. 530-FZ of , applies to the owner of a Russian-language (or Russian minority-language) website, information system, or program that lets users distribute information through personal pages, where daily access exceeds 500,000 Russia-based internet users (a 'social network owner').
It requires that owner to monitor the social network for, among other things, child sexual abuse material and advertisements recruiting minors as performers in pornographic events, drug-related content, suicide-related content, and material inducing minors into unlawful acts that endanger their life or health, and to publish an annual report on complaint handling and monitoring results.
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