Brazil's Senate has approved PL 3.066/2025, which significantly stiffens penalties for digital sexual violence against children and adolescents, with the bill now moving for presidential sanction. The legislation specifically addresses the use of artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and other digital tools as aggravating factors for these crimes. It reclassifies several related offenses as 'heinous crimes,' leading to harsher sentences and reduced benefits for convicts, aiming to deter the exploitation and abuse of minors online. The bill also changes terminology from 'child pornography' to 'sexual violence against children or adolescents' to better reflect the gravity of the acts.
Action required
Individuals and platforms must be aware of significantly increased penalties for digital sexual violence against minors, especially when AI or other digital obfuscation tools are used, as these crimes are now classified as heinous offenses.
Binding status
binding
Governing body
Congresso Nacional — Senado Federal
Direction
restrictive
Innovation impact
constraining
Sponsors
Compliance requirements
Prohibited practices
- Producing, reproducing, directing, photographing, filming, or registering content of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Selling or exposing content of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Offering, exchanging, making available, transmitting, distributing, publishing, or disclosing material of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Acquiring, possessing, or storing material of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Soliciting material of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Accessing or deliberately viewing internet applications, streaming services, or other forms of recording that present material of sexual violence against children or adolescents.
- Grooming children or adolescents for the practice of lewd acts.
- Using AI, deepfakes, filters, fake profiles, anonymization mechanisms, messaging apps, social networks, or online games to commit these crimes.
- Simulating the participation of children and adolescents in sexual violence content (e.g., montages, adulterations, modifications of images).
- Using intermediary servers or masking/occultation techniques to prevent or hinder identification.
AI technologies
Affected industries
Cross-references
Cites laws
Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA)
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Brazil Elevates Digital Child Sexual Abuse Penalties, AI Use Aggravates Offenses
The Brazilian Senate approved legislation significantly increasing penalties for digital sexual violence against children and adolescents, including cases involving artificial intelligence (AI) [1]. This law classifies several related offenses as heinous crimes, imposing stricter conditions for penalty fulfillment. It raises prison sentences for producing, disseminating, storing, and soliciting such material, explicitly listing AI and deepfakes as aggravating factors that increase penalties by one-third to two-thirds [3].
"As penas podem ser aumentadas de um terço a dois terços quando o criminoso promete vantagem à vítima ou se aproveita de relação de confiança, autoridade, cuidado, proteção, vigilância, educação, convivência familiar ou profissional. O mesmo aumento deve ocorrer em caso de uso de: inteligência artificial; deepfake (montagem feita com inteligência artificial para alterar imagem ou voz); filtros; perfis falsos; 'anonimização' (quando se utilizam mecanismos para impedir a identificação do criminoso); aplicativos de mensagens; redes sociais; jogos on-line;"
Enriched 2026-07-08
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