Argentina: Bill on preventive mental health regime in digital environments (7340-D-2025) including user rights was introduced to Chamber of Deputies

On 19 February 2026, the Bill Preventive Mental Health Regime in Digital Environments (7340-D-2025) was introduced to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The Bill would establish user rights in digital environments aimed at safeguarding cognitive autonomy and psychological well-being. It would grant users the right to be informed in advance when interacting with algorithmic recommendations or personalisation systems and to choose non-personalised, chronological, or limited-personalisation viewing modes without functional penalties. Users would be entitled to pause, limit, adjust, or deactivate automated recommendation systems while retaining access to essential service functionalities. The Bill would also provide users with rights to access data relating to their usage time and behavioural profiles, request deletion of behavioural profiles and cessation of recommendations based on historical data, and receive understandable explanations of the general criteria by which content is recommended or prioritised. In addition, platforms would be required to provide clear and accessible information on the functioning of their algorithmic systems, the visibility and prioritisation metrics used, identified psychosocial risks, mitigation measures implemented, available complaint channels, and their data processing policies. Users would also have the right to interact in digital environments that do not exploit cognitive or emotional vulnerabilities and that do not engage in algorithmic discrimination based on inferred or declared mental health conditions.