SlovakiaMedia Services Act, Video-Sharing Platform Public-Protection Measures
Act 264/2022 Coll. (zakon o medialnych sluzbach), ss. 48-50
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- on_request
- Who audits it
- Regulator
- Where the report goes
- Produced on request
What it requires
- Applies to video-sharing platform providers that have their seat, place of business or residence in Slovakia, or that are tied to Slovakia through a parent, subsidiary or group media company seated there (section 7), in relation to programmes, user-created videos and audiovisual commercial communications that may impair a minor's physical, psychological or moral development.
- Adopt appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes, user-created videos and audiovisual commercial communications that may impair their physical, psychological or moral development (section 48(1)(a)).no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Use the measures section 49 lists as the case calls for: protective rules in your terms of use, a reporting and flagging mechanism, a complaints procedure, media-literacy tools, a user-controlled parental-control system, and an age-verification system for users in relation to content that may impair minors' development.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Do not process personal data collected under the parental-control or age-verification measures for commercial purposes.NIST Privacy FrameworkCT.PO-P1
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Rada pre mediálne služby (Council for Media Services) (guidance, recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
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
Rada pre medialne sluzby (Council for Media Services)
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://rpms.sk/opatrenia-poskytovatelov-platformy
- Guidance body
- Rada pre mediálne služby (Council for Media Services)
- Open questions
- Which of the measures listed in section 49(1) of the Zákon o mediálnych službách must a video-sharing platform provider take to meet section 48(1)(a), when section 49(1) says the measures 'môžu zahŕňať v závislosti od konkrétneho prípadu' (may include, depending on the case)?
What it reaches
Covered services
Video-sharing platform providers seated in Slovakia, or tied to Slovakia through a parent, subsidiary or group media company seated there (section 7), in relation to programmes, user-created videos, and audiovisual commercial communications that may impair a minor's physical, psychological, or moral development.
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 50(1) makes a video-sharing platform provider submit to the regulator, on request, the data needed to assess whether the measures taken under section 48 are suitable, and section 50(2) lets the regulator ask for further information when the data does not allow that assessment. The Act does not use the words log or record, but data on how the measures work, including the age-verification system listed in section 49(1)(i), cannot be produced without keeping it. Section 49(4) bars commercial processing of minors' data collected through the parental-control and age-verification measures without setting a retention rule.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Act 264/2022 Coll., section 50(1)
- Trigger
- age_assurance
What this law does
Section 48(1)(a) requires a video-sharing platform provider to adopt appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes, user-created videos, and audiovisual commercial communications that may impair their physical, psychological, or moral development.
Section 49 lists measures the provider may take depending on the case, including embedding the protective rules in the platform's terms of use, a reporting and flagging mechanism for content covered by section 48, a complaints procedure, and media-literacy tools. Among those listed measures is a parental-control system controlled by the user. Section 49 also lists an age-verification system for users in relation to content that may impair minors' development.
Section 50 lets the regulator request data from the provider to assess whether its measures are suitable, and to request further information where the data supplied does not let the regulator make that assessment. Personal data collected under the parental-control or age-verification measures may not be processed for commercial purposes.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s or operates a social platform.
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