Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents (Estatuto Digital da Crianca e do Adolescente)

Now in force, and the more demanding of Brazil's two children's instruments. Brazil already required that children's data be processed in their best interest, with specific and prominent consent from a parent or guardian, under LGPD Art. 14. The Digital ECA goes considerably further for anyone running a consumer service. It requires effective and reliable age verification across services likely to be accessed by minors — social networks, games, app stores, operating systems — and expressly rules out self-declaration; it requires parental consent and account linking for under-16s; it bans targeted advertising and profiling of minors; it bans paid loot boxes for under-18s; and it imposes 24-hour notice-and-takedown for criminal content. Penalties run to BRL 50 million per violation or up to 10% of Brazilian revenue. Implementation is settled enough to plan against: Decreto no 12.622/2025 made the ANPD the enforcement authority, Decreto no 12.880 of March 18, 2026 supplies the implementing detail on age verification, unsuitable content, parental supervision and advertising and establishes a national policy for children in the digital environment, and Lei no 15.352 of February 25, 2026 converted the ANPD itself into a regulatory agency. Sequencing matters for anyone triaging work: the obligations bind now, but the ANPD's published implementation schedule treats 2026 as adaptation and monitoring, puts the updated inspection and administrative-sanction regulations from November 2026, and expects effective inspection to consolidate in 2027 — so the exposure is real but the penalty machinery is still being assembled.