Brazil: Communications Committee approved substitute text to Bill on Prevention, Repression and Accountability of Dangerous Digital Challenges (PL 1690/2025)

On 24 September 2025, the Communications Committee (CCOM) approved a substitute text to Bill No. 1690/2025, reaffirming measures for the prevention, repression, and accountability of digital content that proposes, encourages, or disseminates dangerous challenges or practices placing at risk the life or physical and mental health of children and adolescents. The approved proposal maintained the nationwide prohibition of creating, promoting, disseminating, or hosting such content in digital environments and obliged digital platforms, social networks, and video or messaging applications to adopt monitoring and moderation mechanisms, remove harmful content within 24 hours of notification by the competent authority, and provide an anonymous reporting channel integrated with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and specialised police forces. It confirmed obligations for public and private schools to conduct annual digital education activities, authorised the Executive Branch to establish a National Register of Dangerous Challenges and a Child Digital Safety Seal, and enabled the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate and propose punishment for offenders residing abroad where conduct resulted in severe harm or death to a child or adolescent in Brazil. The proposal still requires analysis by the Social Security, Social Assistance, Childhood, Adolescence, and Family Committee, the Constitution and Justice and Citizenship Committee, and subsequent approval by the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate before becoming law.