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==Proposals== | ==Proposals== | ||
There's no published bill yet, but | There's no published bill yet, but for the legislation, the Chilean government is planning to use as a reference the legislations that have been pushed on Brazil, Australia, France, Spain and the European Union. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Santana Silva |first=Daniela |date=May 2026 |title=Responsabilidad de intermediarios en entornos digitales |trans-title=Responsibility of intermediaries in digital environments |url=https://www.bcn.cl/asesoriasparlamentarias/detalle_documento.html?id=85728 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260618174229/https://www.bcn.cl/asesoriasparlamentarias/detalle_documento.html?id=85728 |archive-date=2026-06-18 |access-date=18 Jun 2026 |website=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional}}</ref> | ||
Mentioned proposals from the ministry point to add mandatory [[age verification]] to sites and applications that are social media to prevent underage users to access them. The Social Development & Family Minister, María Jesús Wulf, mentioned there are plans of adding age verification systems implementing the national [[digital ID]], ClaveÚnica, in order to access to social media. Proposals also include to add home and school capacitations to teach about the risks of the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Edición El América.cl|date=25 May 2026|title=Para proteger a tus hijos en internet: Así es el Plan Nacional de Entornos Digitales Seguros |trans-title=To protect your children in internet: This is the National Plan of Safe Digital Environments |url=https://elamerica.cl/2026/05/25/para-proteger-a-tus-hijos-en-internet-asi-es-el-plan-nacional-de-entornos-digitales-seguros/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bdYS3 |archive-date=2026-06-12 |access-date=12 Jun 2026 |website=El América}}</ref> | |||
==Concerns== | ==Concerns== | ||
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With the Net Neutrality Law, there's a conflict with the first dictated core principle of this legislation, that states network services or applications that offer connectivity or communication between users cannot arbitrarily block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, nor restrict the right of any Internet user to use, send, receive or offer any legal content through Internet, including any legal activity or usage done trough the network. | With the Net Neutrality Law, there's a conflict with the first dictated core principle of this legislation, that states network services or applications that offer connectivity or communication between users cannot arbitrarily block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, nor restrict the right of any Internet user to use, send, receive or offer any legal content through Internet, including any legal activity or usage done trough the network. | ||
The imposition of a restriction without the user's petition is defined as | The imposition of a restriction to access to social media without the user's petition is defined as arbitrary, and it does exactly what this law is prohibiting: | ||
*Blocks and restricts the access of any user that is under the age of 16 or any adult that wants to access to social media but wants to keep their privacy and doesn't want to verify their age. | |||
*It interferes and hinders the ability to access social media by applying a block that can be only removed by verifying or by finding any workaround. | |||
*It discriminates, prohibiting the access to users under 16, any user who wants to keep their privacy and also difficulting the access for disabled or elder people that already have difficulties to use the ClaveÚnica system for statal benefits.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Diario Concepción |date=18 Jun 2026 |title=Clave Única: la barrera digital que dificulta el acceso de adultos mayores a beneficios estatales |trans-title=Clave Única: the digital barrier that difficults the access of elders to statal benefits|url=https://www.tvu.cl/prensa/2026/06/18/clave-unica-la-barrera-digital-que-dificulta-el-acceso-de-adultos-mayores-a-beneficios-estatales.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/flNLI |archive-date=2026-06-19 |access-date=19 Jun 2026 |website=Televisión Universidad de Concepción}}</ref> | |||
==Experts & politicians response== | ==Experts & politicians response== | ||
Experts claim the possibility to implement such age verification systems in the country is something difficult and pretty complex to be acheived, along with the implementation of ClaveÚnica as the method of age verification raises privacy concerns as the statal system is tied with a person's identity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campos |first=Sofía|date=15 Jun 2026 |title=¿Más protección o vulneración de derechos? Uso de ClaveÚnica para redes sociales de menores abre debate entre expertos |trans-title=More protection or rights vulneration? Usage of ClaveÚnica for social media for minors opens debate amongst experts |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/15/1202874/clave-unica-redes-sociales-menores.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260615231935/https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/15/1202874/clave-unica-redes-sociales-menores.html |archive-date=2026-06-15|access-date=15 Jun 2026 |website=Emol}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=apellido |first=nombre |date=13 Jun 2026 |title=¿Ingreso de menores a RR.SS. mediante Clave Única?: La idea del Gobierno que abrió debate entre expertos |trans-title=Minors accessing to social media using Clave Única?: The Government's idea that opened a debate among experts |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/13/1202730/redes-sociales-clave-unica-mideso.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260615232402/https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/13/1202730/redes-sociales-clave-unica-mideso.html |archive-date=2026-06-15 |access-date=15 Jun 2026 |website=Emol}}</ref> | Experts claim the possibility to implement such age verification systems in the country is something difficult and pretty complex to be acheived, along with the implementation of ClaveÚnica as the method of age verification raises privacy concerns as the statal system is tied with a person's identity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campos |first=Sofía|date=15 Jun 2026 |title=¿Más protección o vulneración de derechos? Uso de ClaveÚnica para redes sociales de menores abre debate entre expertos |trans-title=More protection or rights vulneration? Usage of ClaveÚnica for social media for minors opens debate amongst experts |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/15/1202874/clave-unica-redes-sociales-menores.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260615231935/https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/15/1202874/clave-unica-redes-sociales-menores.html |archive-date=2026-06-15|access-date=15 Jun 2026 |website=Emol}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=apellido |first=nombre |date=13 Jun 2026 |title=¿Ingreso de menores a RR.SS. mediante Clave Única?: La idea del Gobierno que abrió debate entre expertos |trans-title=Minors accessing to social media using Clave Única?: The Government's idea that opened a debate among experts |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/13/1202730/redes-sociales-clave-unica-mideso.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260615232402/https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2026/06/13/1202730/redes-sociales-clave-unica-mideso.html |archive-date=2026-06-15 |access-date=15 Jun 2026 |website=Emol}}</ref> | ||
Johannes Kaiser, representative of the National Libertarian Party (PNL) responded claiming the addition of these restrictions are violating the rights of privacy and freedom and granting the State to surveil Chileans on the net.<ref>https://x.com/Jou_Kaiser/status/2066635492867670422 - [ | Johannes Kaiser, representative of the National Libertarian Party (PNL) responded claiming the addition of these restrictions are violating the rights of privacy and freedom and granting the State to surveil Chileans on the net.<ref>https://x.com/Jou_Kaiser/status/2066635492867670422 - [https://megalodon.jp/2026-0616-0842-38/https://x.com:443/Jou_Kaiser/status/2066635492867670422 Archived]</ref><ref>https://x.com/Jou_Kaiser/status/2065970495938306464 - [https://megalodon.jp/2026-0616-0855-02/https://x.com:443/Jou_Kaiser/status/2065970495938306464 Archived]</ref> | ||
==Consumer response== | ==Consumer response== | ||
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Several users in social media have manifested their concerns involving the possibility the system is used for surveillance and control, censorship, the risks of data breaches and credential theft, the erosion of consumer rights and the right of privacy, and the freedom to access to information on the net. Some users also have higlighted the parental controls exist, and parents should be responsible to control, educate and moderate what their children do online, instead of the State. | Several users in social media have manifested their concerns involving the possibility the system is used for surveillance and control, censorship, the risks of data breaches and credential theft, the erosion of consumer rights and the right of privacy, and the freedom to access to information on the net. Some users also have higlighted the parental controls exist, and parents should be responsible to control, educate and moderate what their children do online, instead of the State. | ||
Groups of users on [[Reddit]], specially in the r/chile subreddit, have manifested their opposition with the plan, along with concerns about privacy, risks of data breaches, censorship concerns and concerns about the potential expansion of the ban to more sites of the internet, as the project is looking to follow similar international legislations. Some users have also highlighted the incompatibility of the project with the Net Neutrality Law.<ref>{{Cite web |date=|title=Ministra Wulf adelantó posible control de edad en RRSS a través de ClaveÚnica: qué se sabe hasta ahora |trans-title=Minister Wulf forwarded possible age control on social media trough ClaveÚnica: what it is known for now|url=https://www.old.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1u42z0z/ministra_wulf_adelant%C3%B3_posible_control_de_edad_en/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260613010140/https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1u42z0z/ministra_wulf_adelant%C3%B3_posible_control_de_edad_en/?solution=dfc06a2675df1461dfc06a2675df1461&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec1b5c0be6faef3a5c8e49a1e48c0baeb3&jsc_orig_r=|archive-date=2026-06-13|access-date=12 Jun 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2026 |title=Ya chiquillos. Es hora de detener el AGE CHECK juntos. |trans-title=Ok guys, it's time to stop the AGE CHECK together. |url=https://www.old.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t6qrh9/ya_chiquillos_es_hora_de_deterner_el_age_check/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260613011035/https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t6qrh9/ya_chiquillos_es_hora_de_deterner_el_age_check/?solution=84b9d3b4a9161dc484b9d3b4a9161dc4&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ecf85b607bd3e42b2d71525a281a8ace07&jsc_orig_r= |archive-date=2026-06-13 |access-date=12 Jun 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Chile copia a Inglaterra la ley "Online Safety Act" de Reino unido , creando la censura total de internet, esta ley es la de mayor alcance desde que existe internet en chile. ellos dicen textualmente que es una copia exacta de la ley inglesa | |||
|trans-title=Chile copies England's "Online Safety Act" from the United Kingdom, creating the total censorship of the internet, this legislation has the highest range since internet exists in Chile. They textually say it is an exact copy of the English law|url=https://www.old.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t5zw1i/chile_copia_a_inglaterra_la_ley_online_safety_act/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260613011648/https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t5zw1i/chile_copia_a_inglaterra_la_ley_online_safety_act/?solution=791394e963b74d25791394e963b74d25&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ecdb3b2d2330a3a48f4a53367a500b543e&jsc_orig_r= |archive-date=2026-06-13 |access-date=12 Jun 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref> | |trans-title=Chile copies England's "Online Safety Act" from the United Kingdom, creating the total censorship of the internet, this legislation has the highest range since internet exists in Chile. They textually say it is an exact copy of the English law|url=https://www.old.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t5zw1i/chile_copia_a_inglaterra_la_ley_online_safety_act/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260613011648/https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/1t5zw1i/chile_copia_a_inglaterra_la_ley_online_safety_act/?solution=791394e963b74d25791394e963b74d25&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ecdb3b2d2330a3a48f4a53367a500b543e&jsc_orig_r= |archive-date=2026-06-13 |access-date=12 Jun 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref> | ||