Kenya

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Kenya has not enacted a law that specifically imposes age-verification duties on adult-content services, social media platforms or app stores, and has no age-appropriate design code enacted as a statute.

The Communications Authority of Kenya has instead issued Industry Guidelines for Child Online Protection and Safety, made under its consumer-protection regulations, which direct every ICT product and service provider whose products or services children may access, including social media and internet services, to develop and implement age-verification mechanisms without prescribing a particular method.

Separately, the Data Protection Act, 2019 requires a data controller or processor to obtain a parent or guardian's consent and to implement an age-verification mechanism before processing a child's personal data, a general data-protection duty rather than a platform-specific age-gating regime.