TanzaniaElectronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2020, children protection
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An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA)
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to online content service providers, internet service providers, application service licensees, online content users and internet cafes.
- If you provide, have access to or host online content, use it, or operate an internet cafe, take all possible measures to ensure that children do not register, access or contribute to prohibited content (regulation 18).
- Provide users with a content-filtering mechanism and parental control (regulation 18).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Covered services
Online content service providers, internet service providers, application service licensees, online content users and internet cafes.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Regulation 18 requires the provider to take all possible measures so that children do not register, access or contribute to prohibited content and to provide a content filter and parental control; it states no duty to create or keep a record of an age check. Regulation 13, which this row does not cite, separately makes an internet cafe keep a user register and recorded images for twelve months.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Made by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority under section 103 of the Electronic and Postal Communications Act (Cap. 306), these Regulations apply to online content service providers, internet service providers, application service licensees, online content users and other related online content.
Regulation 18 requires any person who provides, has access to, hosts, uses online content, or operates an internet cafe to take all possible measures to ensure that children do not register, access or contribute to prohibited content, and that users are provided with a content-filtering mechanism and parental control.
The Regulations carry a general penalty for any contravention for which no specific punishment is provided, and were published in the Gazette on , revoking the prior 2018 online content Regulations. Government Notice 57 of 2025 amended the Regulations to add a duty on internet service providers to bar access to prohibited content (regulation 9A) and a duty on social media platform owners to filter and remove prohibited content (regulation 15A).
Government Notice 158i of 2026, in operation from , amended the Regulations to add a licence category for amateur online media services.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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