The Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – AEPD) introduced an age verification system in December 2023 to ensure that any person accessing adult content is authorised to do so. This is in line with the General Law on Audiovisual Communication (Spanish Law 13/2022), which obliges video-sharing platforms to set up age verification systems for content that could be harmful to minors. The “Decalogue of principles: Age verification and protection of minors from inappropriate content” accompanying the system stipulates that the system must: a) ensure that no profiles of people can be created based on their navigation, b) guarantee the exercise of parental authority and c) guarantee the fundamental rights of all people when accessing the Internet. To achieve this, the AEPD recommends that the system should have a defined governance framework.
(Source: AEPD).
Entities responsible for implementation: Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD).
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – AEPD) introduced an age verification system in December 2023 to ensure that any person accessing adult content is authorised to do so. This is in line with the General Law on Audiovisual Communication (Spanish Law 13/2022), which obliges video-sharing platforms to set up age verification systems for content that could be harmful to minors. The “Decalogue of principles: Age verification and protection of minors from inappropriate content” accompanying the system stipulates that the system must: a) ensure that no profiles of people can be created based on their navigation, b) guarantee the exercise of parental authority and c) guarantee the fundamental rights of all people when accessing the Internet. To achieve this, the AEPD recommends that the system should have a defined governance framework.
(Source: AEPD).
Entities responsible for implementation: Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD).
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