Age verification in Mexico for games, social media and app stores

Excluded from normalized aggregate trends after staff review: 3056 posts were attributed to March 2026; 671 shared March 14, 2026. The preceding six-month median was 13.5 posts.

Review evidence: 3,056 posts in March 2026; 671 shared March 14, 2026; preceding six-month median 13.5. Reviewed August 9, 2026.

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Mexico’s Decree on Safe Digital Environments for Children and Adolescents, published and effective on 14 October 2026, requires covered digital platforms—including explicitly named social networks, video games, and app stores—to use reliable age-identification mechanisms that cannot rely solely on users’ self-declared birth dates. The decree may also extend to services such as marketplaces, dating apps, streaming platforms, and edtech products when they enable user interaction or content sharing, although its exact scope for some services and foreign platforms remains unclear. Platforms must implement under-18 safety and privacy defaults, parental supervision tools, content ratings and moderation, visible reporting mechanisms, periodic risk assessments, and a continuously available contact point for authorities, while retaining evidence related to removed accounts or content for at least 90 working days. They must document and report their implemented measures within 30 calendar days of the decree’s entry into force, with the practical deadline estimated around 12–13 November 2026. The decree does not prescribe a specific verification technology, approve vendors, designate a reporting format or recipient, or establish penalties, leaving platforms to select proportionate methods such as facial age estimation, identity-document checks, or registry validation while managing data-protection obligations.

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