President Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) will sign on Tuesday (17) decrees regulating the , which creates rules for content prohibited to children and teenagers on the internet. The event will be held at Palácio do Planalto, at 11am.
The National Secretary for Digital Rights, Victor Fernandes, stated that a text with general rules of the statute will define which content children under 18 years of age will not be able to access in the virtual environment, which will include those related to weapons, illegal gambling games and casinos with reward systems.
“These three decrees will provide operability and even more effectiveness for the companies. It is a clear signal from our federal government that there will be no interstice, there will be no break, there will be no gray zone. Tomorrow it starts and it’s for real,” said Fernandes.
Despite the secretary’s statement, some standards set out in ECA Digital will still need to be regulated by the ANPD (National Data Protection Agency), which organizes this process.
This is the case with the implementation of age verification by platforms to access sensitive content, which, like Sheetwill be staggered and could take months.
The agency’s president, Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, stated that he will present on Wednesday (18) the schedule with the deadlines for putting the rules into practice.
To verify age, he advocated combining methods and cited alternatives such as the creation of a national token wallet (electronic key) and the use of a credit card or biometrics. Ortunho Júnior stated that the chosen technique cannot invade the user’s privacy.
“Since the publication [da lei] In September, we already designed some measures. We have listed 37 companies that are most active in products or services offered to children and adolescents. It is monitoring where we open a dialogue to find out what these companies are doing to meet the digital ECA. It’s a very important process, dialogue”, he said.
The head of ANDP also defended dialogue with big techs and stated that sanctions, such as fines that can reach R$50 million and the suspension of services, should only be applied as a last resort, when there is no further recourse.
Another point that will be regulated by Lula on Tuesday is the creation of the National Center for the Protection of and. The structure under the responsibility of will receive reports of crimes against minors in the virtual environment and forward them to the competent authorities.
With this, social networks will be obliged to inform the PF if there are publications with signs of crimes on their platform and, if notified, they will have to remove the content under penalty of fine and suspension of services.
“This is fundamental because there is no clear duty for companies to report these crimes to the police. Today, this moment of notification, of sharing information is done via voluntary international cooperation. This ends tomorrow”, declared the National Secretary for Digital Rights.
“It will be very important to help disrupt criminal organizations that carry out these crimes against our children and teenagers”, he added.
The project that created ECA Digital was carried out by the Deputy in August 2025 after the topic of child exploitation on social networks gained repercussion with a video by influencer Felca.
The regulation of digital platforms is one of the main pillars of the Lula government, despite there being resistance from large technology companies. The president frequently mentions the topic in his speeches.
João Brant, Secretary of Digital Policies at Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency), stated that, since the beginning of this term, Lula “prioritized” the idea that the virtual environment needs “democratic rules” and a “logic of sovereignty with openness”.
“All service providers here are welcome. Brazil, unlike other countries with different ideological natures, is not part of these providers, as long as they comply with Brazilian legislation, as long as they are willing to obey the legal orders of the Brazilian Court”, he said.
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