Brazil sets Sept. 17 deadline for child-safety transparency reports

Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has clarified a compliance deadline under the country’s Children and Adolescents’ Digital Statute, known as ECA Digital. Article 31 of the law requires any internet platform likely to be accessed by children or teenagers, and that counts more than a million registered users under 18, to publish its first semiannual transparency report on its own website by September 17. In a ruling published in the official government gazette, ANPD said the trigger date for that deadline should be read as the point when the legislation completes one year.

The first report has to cover January 1 through June 30, 2026. Platforms that lack systematized data for January and February can instead limit that initial filing to the period from March 17 — when the law took effect — through June 30, 2026. Either way, the publication deadline remains September 17. ANPD is also recommending, though not requiring, that platforms email their reports to a dedicated monitoring address.

Reporting then settles into the calendar’s regular semesters: the second-half report must cover July 1 through December 31 and be published by February 1, and starting in 2027 the first-half report will be due every August 1. ECA Digital requires each report to detail complaint channels and how reports are investigated and resolved, the number of notifications received by category, content and account moderation actions taken, steps to identify illicit activity and underage accounts on social media, technical upgrades to data and privacy protections for minors, and measures to secure parental consent — plus the methods and results behind the platforms’ own risk and impact assessments for children’s safety and health.

Why it matters

The ruling resolves an ambiguity that had clouded ECA Digital’s rollout since the law took effect, giving the small number of platforms large enough to clear the one-million-under-18 threshold a fixed date — and a concrete reporting template — for showing Brazilian regulators how they police content, accounts and consent for minors.