Brazilian Digital Age Verification Law

Presidency of the Republic, Civil House, Special Secretariat for Legal Affairs LAW No. 15,211, OF SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 Veto message Regulation Validity It provides for the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments (Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents). The President of the Republic hereby announces that the National Congress decrees and I sanction the following Law: CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS Article 1. This Law provides for the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments and applies to any information technology product or service directed at children and adolescents in the country or likely to be accessed by them, regardless of its location, development, manufacture, offering, marketing and operation. Sole paragraph. For the purposes of this Law, the following situations are considered probable access by children and adolescents: I – sufficient likelihood of use and attractiveness of the information technology product or service by children and adolescents; II – considerable ease of access to and use of the information technology product or service by children and adolescents; and III – significant degree of risk to the privacy, security, or biopsychosocial development of children and adolescents, especially in the case of products or services that aim to enable social interaction and the large-scale sharing of information among users in a digital environment. Article 2. For the purposes of this Law, the following definitions apply: I – Information technology product or service: a product or service provided remotely, electronically, and delivered at the request of an individual, such as internet applications, computer programs, software, terminal operating systems, internet application stores, and electronic games or similar devices connected to the internet or other communications network;

A screenshot of an official Brazilian government law titled Law No. 15,211, dated September 17, 2025, concerning the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments. The meme uses the serious legal document as a humorous reaction to the caption about Ubuntu and Elementary OS supposedly planning age verification for all operating-system accounts, exaggerating a regulatory requirement into an absurd Linux scenario. EN: A screenshot of an official Brazilian government law titled Law No. 15,211, dated September 17, 2025, concerning the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments. The meme uses the serious legal document as a humorous reaction to the caption about Ubuntu and Elementary OS supposedly planning age verification for all operating-system accounts, exaggerating a regulatory requirement into an absurd Linux scenario.

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