Internet & Online Safety · Argentina
Online safety & content laws in Argentina (2026)
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Online safety rules in Argentina: partial.
FrameworkNo dedicated omnibus online-safety statute; regulation is a patchwork combining Supreme Court intermediary-liability doctrine (Rodríguez v. Google, 2014), the 'Mica Ortega' Law 27,590 on grooming (2020, reg. Decree 407/2022), 'Ley Olimpia' Law 27,736 on digital gender-based violence (2023), the grooming criminal offense in Art. 131 Penal Code (Law 26,904), Personal Data Protection Law 25,326, and sector oversight by ENACOM. Several comprehensive online-safety/age-verification bills are pending in Congress.
Argentina does not have a comprehensive online-safety or platform-liability law comparable to the EU DSA or UK OSA. Intermediary liability is governed by the 2014 Supreme Court 'Belén Rodríguez' doctrine (platforms are not strictly liable for third-party content and must remove clearly illicit content on notice, with judicial notice generally required in doubtful cases), supplemented by targeted statutes on grooming (Mica Ortega Law) and digital gender-based violence (Ley Olimpia). Multiple 2024–2025 bills on content takedown, digital identity protection, and age verification/mental health in digital environments remain under debate; Freedom House rates the country 'partly free' online.
Key points
Argentina currently lacks a horizontal statute regulating platform content moderation, systemic risk, or duties of care. Content and safety rules are dispersed across the Constitution's free-speech protections, the Civil and Commercial Code, criminal law, and sectoral statutes; regulatory proposals for a general framework remain in Congress.
The Supreme Court held in María Belén Rodríguez c/ Google that search engines and hosts are not objectively liable for third-party content; they incur subjective liability only if, after 'actual knowledge' of clearly illicit content, they fail to act diligently. For content whose illegality is not manifest, a competent judicial or administrative order is required before takedown.
Law 27,590 (2020), regulated by Decree 407/2022, creates a National Program for Prevention and Awareness of Grooming/Cyberbullying against children and adolescents, requiring providers of internet-connected devices and interactive platforms to display safety messages and mandating school programs. Grooming itself is criminalized under Article 131 of the Penal Code (Law 26,904).
Promulgated in October 2023, Ley Olimpia amends Law 26,485 to add 'digital violence' as a modality of gender-based violence, covering non-consensual intimate images, online harassment, sextortion, doxxing, and misogynistic hate speech in digital environments, and imposes prevention/education duties on the state.
Bill 7340-D-2025 (introduced Feb 2026) proposes a 'preventive mental health regime in digital environments' with proportional age verification, parental-consent mechanisms, and fines up to 30% of monthly turnover for large platforms. Other pending 2024 bills would require takedowns on judicial order (July 2024), protect 'digital identity' against NCII/impersonation, and regulate influencers—none are yet in force.
Freedom House rates Argentina 'partly free' on the internet (score dropping from 74 to 71 in 2025), citing robust legal protection for online expression but growing harassment of journalists and creation in July 2024 of the Artificial Intelligence Unit Applied to Security (UIAAS) enabling social-media monitoring. ENACOM regulates telecoms and audiovisual services under Law 27,078 and the outdated Audiovisual Communication Services Law 26,522, but has no dedicated jurisdiction over social-media content.
Timeline - major decisions & events
Reform bills (e.g. 1497-D-2024) based on the AAIP's draft propose a full overhaul of Argentina's data-protection law to align with the EU GDPR and Brazil's LGPD, adding biometric data as sensitive, privacy by design, data portability, and rights against automated decisions. Marks the still-pending modernization of the framework governing online data and platforms.
AAIP (argentina.gob.ar) ↗The data-protection authority published a guidance document for public and private entities on transparency and personal-data protection across the AI lifecycle, the first such soft-law instrument shaping how AI systems handle Argentines' data online.
AAIP (argentina.gob.ar) ↗The AAIP approved a new classification of infractions and graduated-penalty scheme for breaches of the Data Protection (25.326) and 'No Llame' (26.951) laws, streamlining enforcement and creating an offenders' registry. Strengthens the regulator's teeth over online data handling.
Boletín Oficial ↗Amending Law 26.485, the statute defines digital/telematic violence, including non-consensual sharing of intimate images and online harassment, and empowers judges to order platforms to remove offending content. A landmark for online safety of women.
Boletín Oficial ↗The authority established a program to analyze and build capacity for transparent, privacy-respecting AI in the public and private sectors, the foundation for Argentina's later AI guidance.
Boletín Oficial ↗Personal data and DNI images of Argentines, including the president and public figures, were exfiltrated via misused credentials and offered for sale online, prompting RENAPER to overhaul its verification services to return only true/false responses. A major incident exposing weaknesses in state data security.
Chequeado ↗Congress approved the Council of Europe's cybercrime treaty (with reservations), giving Argentine justice international tools to investigate online fraud, child sexual abuse material and related offenses.
Boletín Oficial ↗The law established the Agency for Access to Public Information as an autonomous body that also serves as the enforcement authority for the Personal Data Protection Law 25.326, the regulator now central to online data and safety oversight.
InfoLEG (Min. Justicia) ↗The CSJN set the leading precedent on search-engine liability: intermediaries are not strictly liable for third-party content and must remove material only after specific, precise notice (judicial for honor-related cases; direct notice for manifestly illegal content like child abuse imagery). Defined the balance between free expression online and personal rights.
SAIJ (Min. Justicia) ↗Argentina made it a crime to contact a minor via electronic communications with intent to commit an offense against their sexual integrity, with penalties of six months to four years. A core online child-safety provision.
argentina.gob.ar ↗The law declared that searching, receiving and disseminating information and ideas via the Internet falls within the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression, barring prior censorship online, a foundational principle for Argentine internet regulation.
argentina.gob.ar ↗Argentina's foundational data-protection statute implemented the constitutional habeas data right, regulating public and private databases and granting rights of access, rectification and deletion. It later earned EU adequacy status and remains the backbone of online data governance.
InfoLEG (Min. Justicia) ↗Argentina - other topics
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