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BR LGPD Art. 16 sole paragraph I-II - controller risk and impact report

Assess child-data risks and prepare the controller impact, monitoring and evaluation report

HIGHRequirementRisk assessmentBinding regulationIn forceApplies from 17 March 2026

Where this comes from

Provision: Art. 16 sole paragraph I-II - controller risk and impact report

Instrument: ECA Digital (Lei nº 15.211/2025)

Citation: Lei nº 15.211/2025, Art. 16 sole paragraph I-II - controller risk and impact report; Articles 1-3, 7 and 41; Lei nº 15.352/2026

Text version: Lei nº 15.211, de 17 de setembro de 2025, Articles 16-19 and 39; commencement amended by Lei nº 15.352/2026

Checked against the source: 6 September 2026

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Who it applies to

It applies when all of these are true:

  • Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_ACCESS: YES
  • Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_DATA_CONTROLLER: YES

What engineering work it implies

Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:

  • Assess both the Article 16 product/service child-access scope and the actual controller role processing personal data of children or adolescents. The sole paragraph applies especially to nonessential processing, not only to nonessential processing; necessary service-operation processing does not itself remove these controller duties.
  • Map risks to children and adolescents and make efforts to mitigate them under Article 16 sole paragraph (I). Preserve the assessed processing purposes, roles, affected categories, risk analysis, proportionate measures, responsible review and unresolved gaps without treating a generic privacy-policy statement as the assessment.
  • Prepare the personal-data protection impact, monitoring and evaluation report required by Article 16 sole paragraph (II), and provide it on request of the competent child/adolescent digital-rights authority under the applicable regulation. This is not a requirement to publish the raw report publicly or a new universal fixed filing interval.
  • Article 16 is not listed in Article 39. Do not infer this controller role from generic tracking, an existing impact-assessment flag or an editorial service label, and do not turn purpose necessity into an exemption.
  • Use synthetic or sanitized assessment cases and minimized configuration, access, control and review evidence. Exclude real child identities, conversations, images, recordings, precise locations and raw personal-data reports from ordinary task attachments, exports and general logs. Keep any legally necessary sensitive operational material in a separately authorized, purpose-limited process with assessed access and retention. This is an engineering evidence-minimization safeguard, not a prescribed fixed log schema or retention period.

Evidence an auditor expects

  • Assessment documentDocument review

    Assess child-data risks and prepare the controller impact, monitoring and evaluation report — scoped assessment and minimized evidence

    Assess both the Article 16 product/service child-access scope and the actual controller role processing personal data of children or adolescents. The sole paragraph applies especially to nonessential processing, not only to nonessential processing; necessary service-operation processing does not itself remove these controller duties. Map risks to children and adolescents and make efforts to mitigate them under Article 16 sole paragraph (I). Preserve the assessed processing purposes, roles, affected categories, risk analysis, proportionate measures, responsible review and unresolved gaps without treating a generic privacy-policy statement as the assessment. Prepare the personal-data protection impact, monitoring and evaluation report required by Article 16 sole paragraph (II), and provide it on request of the competent child/adolescent digital-rights authority under the applicable regulation. This is not a requirement to publish the raw report publicly or a new universal fixed filing interval. Article 16 is not listed in Article 39. Do not infer this controller role from generic tracking, an existing impact-assessment flag or an editorial service label, and do not turn purpose necessity into an exemption. Use synthetic or sanitized assessment cases and minimized configuration, access, control and review evidence. Exclude real child identities, conversations, images, recordings, precise locations and raw personal-data reports from ordinary task attachments, exports and general logs. Keep any legally necessary sensitive operational material in a separately authorized, purpose-limited process with assessed access and retention. This is an engineering evidence-minimization safeguard, not a prescribed fixed log schema or retention period. Verify current ANPD implementing requirements and qualified Portuguese source review. Lei 15.211/2025 commenced on 17 March 2026 following Lei 15.352/2026; do not infer all historical legal outcomes or full ECA Digital compliance from this record.

Questions people ask

Does BR LGPD Art. 16 sole paragraph I-II - controller risk and impact report apply to my service?
It applies when Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_ACCESS: YES; Brazil ECA Digital assessed fact Q_BR_ECA_CHILD_DATA_CONTROLLER: YES.
From when does this apply?
BR LGPD Art. 16 sole paragraph I-II - controller risk and impact report applies from 17 March 2026. Its current status is: in force.
What evidence does an auditor expect?
Assess child-data risks and prepare the controller impact, monitoring and evaluation report — scoped assessment and minimized evidence.

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