Online safety & content laws in Peru (2026)
Online safety rules in Peru: partial.
Peru's online-safety and content-moderation framework is fragmented: it relies on sector-specific decrees, consumer-protection enforcement, and data-protection rules rather than a comprehensive platform-safety law. A 2019 executive decree empowers the MTC to order ISPs to block apps and websites without judicial oversight, upheld by the Supreme Court in April 2025, raising civil-liberties concerns. Significant proposed legislation on children's online protection was advancing through Congress in 2025 but had not yet been enacted into a standalone online-safety law.
Legal framework
Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) and OSIPTEL (telecom regulator) exercise principal authority; no comprehensive online-safety statute exists. Key instruments: Supreme Decree No. 035-2019-MTC (executive platform-blocking); Law No. 29733 / Supreme Decree No. 016-2024-JUS (personal data protection); ISP child-safety obligations under CSEA-related law; Proyecto de Ley No. 10880/2024-CR (proposed children's digital-wellbeing law, in legislative process as of 2025).
Key points: internet & online safety in Peru
Executive blocking power (DS 035-2019-MTC)
Supreme Decree No. 035-2019-MTC grants the MTC authority to direct ISPs to block apps and websites without a court order or prior administrative hearing. Peru's Supreme Court upheld the decree in April 2025, over objections from digital-rights NGO Hiperderecho that it enables unchecked executive censorship.
No comprehensive platform-liability regime
Peru has no law providing blanket intermediary immunity (analogous to Section 230) nor a DSA/OSA-style content-moderation mandate. In its absence, consumer-protection authorities (INDECOPI) have pursued platforms for non-compliance with their own terms of service, and some liability-release clauses in platform T&Cs have been voided as unfair.
ISP obligations for child protection online (CSEA law)
A law, backed by advocacy from Safe Online grantee CHS Alternativo, requires ISPs to inform subscribers about parental-filter options and mandates that public internet venues (cybercafés, hotels, airports, government facilities) install parental filters. Non-compliance is a serious offence sanctioned by OSIPTEL.
Proposed children's digital-wellbeing law (PL 10880/2024-CR)
The Women and Family Commission of Congress approved Proyecto de Ley No. 10880/2024-CR, which would restrict children under 12 to supervised device use, cap non-educational screen time for 12-16 year-olds at two hours daily, bar under-16s from opening their own social-media accounts, and require platforms to implement age-verification and prohibit targeted advertising at minors. As of 2025 it remained in the full legislative process.
Updated personal data protection regulation (DS 016-2024-JUS)
Supreme Decree No. 016-2024-JUS, published 30 November 2024 and in force from 30 March 2025, modernises Peru's data-protection framework under Law No. 29733, introducing DPO requirements, breach-notification obligations, data portability, and requirements to make reasonable efforts to verify consent where personal data is processed over the internet.
Digital-content creator regulation bill (2025)
A congressional bill tabled in late 2025 would impose registration and content obligations on digital content creators (YouTubers, influencers). Hiperderecho published a detailed critique in November 2025 arguing the proposal is unconstitutional and technically unworkable, and it had not advanced to a final vote as of the available record.
Sources
- hiperderecho.org/2025/04/corte-suprema-censura-digital/
- hiperderecho.org/2025/03/defendiendo-internet-libre-limites-estado-entorno-digital/
- accessnow.org/blocking-apps-by-ministerial-decree-enables-illegal-content-takedowns
- safeonline.global/a-major-victory-for-children-in-peru-as-country-brings-in-new-law-to-
- comunicaciones.congreso.gob.pe/noticias/comision-de-mujer-aprobo-dictamen-sobre-proteccion-infantil-
- compliancelatam.legal/en/peru-new-regulations-of-the-personal-data-protection-act-are-publi
- centrocompetencia.com/peru-regulacion-fragmentada-de-plataformas-digitales-y-ley-general-de
- law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/wikimedia-initiative-intermediaries-and-information/w
- iapp.org/news/a/se-publica-el-nuevo-reglamento-de-protecci-n-de-datos-personal
- hiperderecho.org/2025/11/10-razones-por-las-que-el-proyecto-de-ley-que-regula-a-los-cr
- infobae.com/peru/2025/08/29/congreso-pone-en-debate-la-regulacion-del-uso-de-rede
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