BR LGPD ECA Digital Art. 8(IV) and Art. 17 §4 - excessive-use defaults and recommendation controls
Implement defaults against excessive use and parental controls over personalized recommendations
Where this comes from
Provision: ECA Digital Art. 8(IV) and Art. 17 §4 - excessive-use defaults and recommendation controls
Instrument: Estatuto Digital da Criança e do Adolescente (Lei nº 15.211/2025)
Citation: Lei nº 15.211/2025, Art. 8(IV); Art. 17 §4(II),(V); Decreto 12.880/2026 Art. 9; Art. 41-A (Lei nº 15.352/2026); Lei 15.211/2025 Art. 39 caput and §§1-3
Text version: Lei nº 15.211, de 17 de setembro de 2025, compiled text; Art. 41-A inserted by Lei nº 15.352/2026; Decreto nº 12.880/2026
Checked against the source: 6 September 2026
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_ACCESS: YES
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Assess Lei 15.211/2025 Article 39's service-specific modulation and conditional dispensation. Record the exact eligible editorial-control or previously licensed-content provider class and every cumulative §1 condition: applicable classification rules (or required alternative age adequacy and harmful-content signalling), transparent age classification, accessible parental mediation restricting age-based content, personal data processed, interaction with other users and commercial transactions, and accessible reporting channels for misclassified or rights-violating content. A generic service label, a single safeguard or an asserted exemption is insufficient. Do not extend relief beyond the listed provisions, actual provider/service scope and established conditions. Record qualified review of current implementing criteria; synthetic checks and minimized records must preserve replacement safeguards and unresolved gaps.
- Record the assessed Brazilian child/adolescent product scope and actual Lei 15.211/2025 Art. 8(IV), Art. 17 §4 and Decreto 12.880/2026 Art. 9 requirements.
- Design and test defaults that avoid excessive, problematic or compulsive use; assess hidden stopping points, unsolicited new content, time-spent rewards and excessive notifications.
- Apply the most protective available parental-supervision defaults and limits on artificial extension of use. Where personalized recommendation systems exist, provide controls including an option to disable them; this is not a universal recommendation-system ban.
- Use synthetic journeys to verify stopping, default limits and the conditional recommendation controls without prescribing unsupported universal screen-time limits or child interaction logging.
Evidence an auditor expects
- Assessment documentDocument review
ECA Digital scoped safeguards and conditional Article 39 assessment
Assess Lei 15.211/2025 Article 39's service-specific modulation and conditional dispensation. Record the exact eligible editorial-control or previously licensed-content provider class and every cumulative §1 condition: applicable classification rules (or required alternative age adequacy and harmful-content signalling), transparent age classification, accessible parental mediation restricting age-based content, personal data processed, interaction with other users and commercial transactions, and accessible reporting channels for misclassified or rights-violating content. A generic service label, a single safeguard or an asserted exemption is insufficient. Do not extend relief beyond the listed provisions, actual provider/service scope and established conditions. Record qualified review of current implementing criteria; synthetic checks and minimized records must preserve replacement safeguards and unresolved gaps. Record the assessed Brazilian child/adolescent product scope and actual Lei 15.211/2025 Art. 8(IV), Art. 17 §4 and Decreto 12.880/2026 Art. 9 requirements. Design and test defaults that avoid excessive, problematic or compulsive use; assess hidden stopping points, unsolicited new content, time-spent rewards and excessive notifications. Apply the most protective available parental-supervision defaults and limits on artificial extension of use. Where personalized recommendation systems exist, provide controls including an option to disable them; this is not a universal recommendation-system ban. Use synthetic journeys to verify stopping, default limits and the conditional recommendation controls without prescribing unsupported universal screen-time limits or child interaction logging. Preserve scoped configuration and test evidence, accountable owners and unresolved gaps; assess other AI-interface, profiling, advertising and supervision duties separately.
Questions people ask
- Does BR LGPD ECA Digital Art. 8(IV) and Art. 17 §4 - excessive-use defaults and re… apply to my service?
- It applies when Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_ACCESS: YES.
- From when does this apply?
- BR LGPD ECA Digital Art. 8(IV) and Art. 17 §4 - excessive-use defaults and re… applies from 17 March 2026. Its current status is: in force.
- What evidence does an auditor expect?
- ECA Digital scoped safeguards and conditional Article 39 assessment.
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