The plenary of Chamber of Deputies approved, in the early hours of this Thursday (16), a bill that updates the ECA (Child and Adolescent Statute) with rules aimed to the protection of “child digital influencers”.
The text was approved symbolically and will go to the Federal Senate.
The matter establishes the need for judicial authorization for minors to participate in artistic representations carried out in a digital environment. The project is authored by the deputy Lídice da Mata (PSB-BA) and had a report of Rogéria Santos (Republicans-BA).
O text makes it explicit in . However, participation in artistic representations is subject to judicial authorization.
In her opinion, rapporteur Rogéria Santos stressed that “children should be children, ensuring that their presence in the digital environment occurs in a safe, playful and recreational way, without confusing artistic expression with veiled forms of exploitation or child labor”.
In cases where it is authorized by the courts, criteria are established such as the full deposit of monthly income earned into a linked bank account, opened in the name of the child or adolescent and under judicial control.
The judicial authority must also establish that the movement of revenues earned will depend on substantiated judicial authorization, after hearing the Public Prosecutor’s Office, “limited to proven subsistence, education or health expenses, always in their best interests, with the balance remaining unavailable until the age of majority or civil emancipation, unless a judicial decision to the contrary, equally well-founded”.
The text also provides that suppliers of information technology products or services must ensure the right to delete content relating to children and adolescents upon request from parents or the child or adolescent themselves, from the age of 16. The measure applies regardless of proven damage.
