Mexico

Decreto de entornos digitales seguros para niñas, niños y adolescentes, Diario Oficial de la Federación, 14 de octubre de 2026

Effective 2026-10-14 · Applies to private

The President signed the decree in Mexico City on 14 October 2026. The Diario Oficial de la Federación published the decree on 14 October 2026, in its evening edition. The decree takes effect on the day of its publication in the Diario Oficial de la Federación. Under the fourth transitory provision, digital platforms must document and report the actions they have implemented to comply within a maximum of thirty calendar days from the decree's entry into force.

Article 2 defines a digital platform as a digital service provided by intermediaries over the Internet that lets users interact, communicate and create, share or distribute content, including social networks, video games and app stores.

Article 3 prohibits a digital platform from allowing a child or adolescent access to, exposure to or a recommendation of content in seven listed categories, including harassment and cyberbullying, sexual abuse and exploitation, hate speech and violent extremism, pornography and other explicit sexual material, and suicide, self-harm and eating disorders.

Article 4, item I, requires each digital platform to implement reliable and secure mechanisms to identify the age of its users, which must not be limited to the user's self-declaration of age.

Article 4, items II to V, require a digital platform to publish its criteria for identifying and removing accounts or content that promote an Article 3 prohibition and its criteria for age classification and content moderation, to remove such accounts and content immediately, and to provide accessible, visible and permanently available reporting mechanisms.

Article 4, items VI to VIII, require a digital platform to provide parental supervision of minors' accounts, to guarantee safety and protection by design, and to keep the strictest available privacy and safety settings active by default when a new account is created.

Article 4, item IX, requires a digital platform to carry out periodic assessments of the risks that its design, features, recommender systems and user interaction pose to children and adolescents, to adopt reasonable measures to prevent or mitigate them, and to share statistical reports on the Article 3 content patterns it detects with the competent authorities.

Article 5 requires a digital platform to designate a direct, specialized contact point for justice authorities that is available 24 hours a day, every day of the year. When an account or content is removed, a digital platform must preserve any digital evidence for at least 90 business days. A digital platform must also immediately inform and alert the competent national authorities of accounts or content that threaten the life, dignity, safety, integrity or privacy of children and adolescents.

Article 6 directs the Secretaría de Salud to design and implement mental-health strategies and programs for children and adolescents.

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Ley General de los Derechos de Niñas Niños y Adolescentes (LGDNNA), art. 69 Bis, adicionado por decreto publicado en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 9 de marzo de 2018

Effective 2018-03-10 · Applies to private

Article 69 Bis requires the Secretaría de Gobernación to issue the guidelines classifying video games distributed, marketed, or rented by any means, and to oversee compliance. A video-game distributor must print or affix the applicable classification on the game's cover and in its advertising. A video-game marketer must not advertise, exhibit, sell, or rent a video game whose classification is not visible under the guidelines.

A video-game marketer or renter must require a person seeking to buy or rent a video game classified as exclusively for adults to prove they have reached the age of majority, without which the sale or rental may not proceed. Article 148, fracción VII Bis, makes contravening this duty an infraction, sanctioned under Article 149 with a fine of 3,000 to 30,000 days of the general minimum wage in effect when the conduct occurred, doubled on recidivism. The article itself does not specify a required proof-of-age method.

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