Tanzania

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Tanzania 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 Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority has instead made the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2020 under the Electronic and Postal Communications Act, which direct every person who provides, has access to, hosts, or uses online content, or who operates an internet cafe, to take all possible measures to ensure that children do not register, access or contribute to prohibited content, and that users are given a content-filtering mechanism and parental control, without prescribing a particular age-verification method.

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Instruments on record

Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2020, children protection

In force

Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2020 (GN No. 538 of 2020), reg. 18 (children protection)

Effective 2020-07-17 · Applies to private

Made by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority under section 103 of the Electronic and Postal Communications Act (Cap. 306), these Regulations apply to online content service providers, internet service providers, application service licensees, online content users and other related online content.

Regulation 18 requires any person who provides, has access to, hosts, uses online content, or operates an internet cafe to take all possible measures to ensure that children do not register, access or contribute to prohibited content, and that users are provided with a content-filtering mechanism and parental control.

The Regulations carry a general penalty for any contravention for which no specific punishment is provided, and were published in the Gazette on 17 July 2020, revoking the prior 2018 online content Regulations.

Enforcement bodyTanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA)

Source: Full text of law