Brazil adopts ECA Digital to require safer online design for minors

Brazil is moving online safety enforcement upstream, requiring preventive controls rather than waiting to assign liability after harm. For streaming and other platform operators, the key signal is that age verification is now part of the regulatory conversation, not just content moderation. The article frames ECA Digital as a safety-by-design model for minors, which aligns policy attention around product architecture instead of only takedown rules. Watch for the specific age-verification requirements and how they are written into the final ECA Digital framework.