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What is the status of digital children’s rights?

In this Digital Child Rights Monitor we give insight how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) addressed digital child rights in its 2025 Concluding Observations on Brazil. The priority scale reflects how strongly the CRC highlights an issue in its recommendations — the higher the score, the bigger or more pressing the problem. This scale helps visualize which digital child rights issues the CRC considers most urgent and where Brasil faces its greatest challenges. If a country gets a low priority score it does not necessarily mean the country is doing good, it just means the CRC made little to no mention to it.

Summary

Priority

Privacy & Data Protection (15) stands out with the highest priority score. The CRC repeatedly raises concerns about how children’s personal data is collected, handled, and protected, making this Brazil’s most pressing digital child rights issue. Infrastructure & Capacity (9) receives a lower level of attention but still urgent, indicating the need for stronger systems, coordination, and digital governance. 

Priority

Online Safety & Protection (4)  falls in this category, with several mentions pointing to gaps in safeguarding policies and mechanisms for reporting online risks.

Priority

Digital Access & Participation (1), Digital Health & Well-Being (0), and Violence & Exploitation Online (4) all receive lower priority scores. These low results suggest that inclusion, digital well-being, and certain forms of online harm are not major areas of concern in the CRC’s review of Brazil compared to the stronger focus on privacy and system-wide infrastructure.

Overview themes

  1. Digital Access & Participation
  2. Digital Health & Wellbeing
  3. Infrastructure & Capacity
  4. Online safety & Protection
  5. Privacy & Data Protection
  6. Violence & Exploitation Online

The data show that Privacy & Data Protection receives the highest urgency score in Brazil’s CRC review, making it the most emphasized digital child rights theme. Infrastructure & Capacity and Online Safety & Protection follow at a medium level, indicating notable but less pressing concerns. Digital Access & Participation, Digital Health & Well-Being, and Violence & Exploitation Online receive very limited attention, suggesting these areas are not major focuses in the CRC’s assessment of Brazil.

Privacy & Data Protection

  1. Artificial Intellegence (AI)
  2. Children’s Digital privacy rights
  3. Data protection, surveillance & profiling
  4. Extraterritorial jurisdiction for online crimes

The CRC places the greatest urgency on children’s digital privacy rights and data protection, surveillance, and profiling, both receiving the highest scores. Artificial intelligence (AI) also appears as a notable concern, though with a lower urgency level, indicating emerging risks linked to automated systems affecting children. Extraterritorial jurisdiction for online crimes is not mentioned, suggesting cross-border enforcement is not a current focus in Brazil’s review.

Infrastructure and capacity

  1. Cybercrime & Cybersecurity laws
  2. Digitalized systems
  3. Training of Proffesionals

The CRC’s remarks for Brazil highlight digitalized systems and cybercrime and cybersecurity laws as the main areas requiring attention, with both receiving moderate urgency scores. This indicates a focus on strengthening Brazil’s digital infrastructure and its legal framework for tackling online offences. Training of professionals is not mentioned, suggesting that capacity-building for law enforcement and related actors is not emphasized in the CRC’s assessment.

Digital Health & Wellbeing

Brazil shows almost no CRC concern regarding digital access and participation.
The only issue mentioned is e-learning, which received a low urgency score, while all other subthemes; IT infrastructure, digital divide, civic participation, and access for children with disabilities, received no mentions at all.

Online Safety & Protection

Brazil’s online safety results show a moderate focus on safeguarding policies in digital media, which received the highest urgency score in this theme.
There was only a minor reference to awareness campaigns, and no CRC concern related to complaint or reporting mechanisms.
Overall, the CRC highlights a need to strengthen platform accountability, while public awareness and reporting systems appear less prioritized in the latest review.

Violence & Exploitation Online

Brazil’s data shows that the only digital violence issue raised by the CRC is online sexual exploitation and CSAM, which received a moderate urgency score. There were no CRC concerns recorded for online harassment, discriminatory violence, or trafficking and exploitation.

Digital Access & Participation

Brazil shows almost no CRC concern regarding digital access and participation.
The only issue mentioned is e-learning, which received a low urgency score, while all other subthemes—IT infrastructure, digital divide, civic participation, and access for children with disabilities—received no mentions at all.

Concluding Observations CRC

  1. “Adopt measures that protect children from online risks, such as gambling, betting and advertisement targeting children; …”
  2. “Welcoming the preliminary ban on the use of personal data by companies to develop artificial intelligence systems and recalling its general comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, the Committee recommends that the State Party:…”
  3. “Effectively implement resolution No. 245/2024 on children’s rights and the digital environment of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents;…”
  4. “Develop and adopt without delay the national policy for the protection of the rights of children and adolescents in the digital environment;…”
  5. “Ensure that regulations about access to information in the digital environment adequately protect children from harmful content and materials;…”
  6. “Enhance the digital literacy and skills of children, teachers and families.”
  7. “Strengthen its data-collection system to ensure that data on children’s rights cover all areas of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto and that the data are disaggregated by age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic and national origin and socioeconomic background;…”
  8. “Strengthen the existing legal framework on the protection of personal data to ensure comprehensive safeguards for children’s personal data protection;…”
  9. “Prohibit the use of children’s personal data in artificial intelligence systems and provide mechanisms for accountability and remedy and expedite the adoption of draft law No. 5342 of 2023 on pornographic material generated by artificial intelligence.”
  10. “Adopt measures necessary for the effective implementation of Law No. 14.344 of 2022, establish a national database on all cases of domestic violence against children and encourage community- and family-based programmes aimed at preventing and tackling domestic violence, child abuse and neglect;…”
  11. “Taking note of the information provided by the State Party about the National Policy for People Living in Street Situations and its Plan of Action, and recalling its general comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations, the Committee recommends that the State Party adopt a data-collection system for children living and/or working in the streets, ensure their protection from acts of violence and ensure their reintegration with family or placement in alternative care, with full respect for their best interests and giving due weight to their autonomous views in accordance with their age and maturity.”

Brazil
2025

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