BR LGPD ANPD Resolution / Guidance - Children's data processing guidelines
Follow ANPD guidance on children's data: document best interests, verify parental consent, evaluate legal bases for adolescents case-by-case, adapt transparency to age, and implement proportionate safeguards
Where this comes from
Provision: ANPD Resolution / Guidance - Children's data processing guidelines
Instrument: Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD)
Citation: ANPD Study on Children's and Adolescents' Data Processing (2023); ANPD Resolution CD/ANPD No. 2/2022; LGPD Art. 14; LGPD Art. 55-J (ANPD competencies)
Text version: Lei nº 13.709/2018 (LGPD), texto compilado
Who it applies to
Child audience (designed for OR likely accessed by children) — any one of these:
- Service is specifically designed for children under 18
- Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18
Remaining applicability scope — all of these:
- Service processes personal data
- Data retention period — any answer
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- High-privacy / high-safety settings are the default for users who are or may be children
- Nudges and engagement patterns that are detrimental to children are removed or off by default
- Geolocation, public visibility, and contact-by-strangers are off by default for minors
- Design decisions affecting children are documented with their rationale
- A newly created minor account has high-privacy defaults
Questions people ask
- Does BR LGPD ANPD Resolution / Guidance - Children's data processing guidelines apply to my service?
- It applies when at least one of: Service is specifically designed for children under 18; Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18; and Service processes personal data; Data retention period — any answer.
- From when does this apply?
- BR LGPD ANPD Resolution / Guidance - Children's data processing guidelines applies from 18 September 2020. Its current status is: in force.
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