TanzaniaCybercrimes Act, 2015, child sexual abuse material including computer-generated content
Cybercrimes Act 2015 (Act No. 14 of 2015), s. 13, as substituted by the Child Protection Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2024 (Act No. 10 of 2024), s. 5 (child sexual abuse material)
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Place of effect
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not produce, offer, distribute, transmit, procure or possess, through a computer system, child sexual abuse material, including computer-generated material that cannot be differentiated from a real child.
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In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
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Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A fine of not less than TZS 50,000,000 or three times the value of the undue advantage received, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for a term of not less than seven years, or both, on conviction (s. 13(3) as substituted); the convicted person may additionally be ordered to compensate the victim (s. 13(4)). Section 13 sets a minimum fine and a minimum imprisonment term rather than a ceiling, so it states no cap on the penalty.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 13, as substituted, punishes producing, offering, distributing, transmitting, procuring, and possessing child sexual abuse material, including computer-generated material, through a computer system, and states no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Child Protection Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2024 repealed and replaced section 13 of the Cybercrimes Act, and amended section 3's definitions to add 'child sexual abuse material' or 'child sexual exploitation material', defined to mean any image, video, audio or written content depicting sexual acts involving a child or portraying a child in a sexualised manner, and to include any image, video or computer-generated material, whether created, adopted or modified, which cannot be differentiated from a real child.
As substituted, section 13 prohibits producing, offering, distributing, transmitting, procuring or knowingly possessing such material through a computer system, and prohibits compelling, inviting or allowing a child to view pornography or such material.
A person convicted is liable to a fine of not less than TZS 50,000,000 or three times the undue advantage received, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for a term of not less than seven years, or both, and may additionally be ordered to compensate the victim.
When LexLint raises it
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