Authorities in the UAE are preparing phased online child protection measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
New online child protection measures in the UAE will cover a range of digital services, including gaming and gambling-related content<\/strong>. The policy direction was discussed during a meeting of the Education, Human Development and Community Development Council, where officials identified online child protection as a national priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They discussed a phased regulatory approach beginning with high-impact platforms and later extending to other digital platforms. The framework will build on Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025 on Child Digital Safety, which prohibits digital platforms from allowing minors to access, create accounts for, or participate in online games with gambling elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities said there will be clearer obligations for service providers<\/strong>, including age-gating systems, monitoring tools and enforcement mechanisms designed to prevent underage access to restricted digital content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities in the UAE are preparing phased online child protection measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The UAE is implementing phased online child protection measures, specifically targeting digital services including gaming and gambling-related content. This regulatory framework, building on Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025, mandates clearer obligations for service providers, such as age-gating systems and monitoring tools, to prevent underage access to restricted digital content. The initiative underscores a national priority for child digital safety, commencing with high-impact platforms.","focusai_entities":"Education, Human Development and Community Development Council","focusai_location":"UAE","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.9), tech_data (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Technical Standards Mandated?","query":"What specific technical standards will be mandated for age-gating and monitoring tools, and what is the expected timeline for their implementation across all digital platforms?"},{"label":"Phased Approach & Enforcement?","query":"How will the phased regulatory approach differentiate between 'high-impact platforms' and other digital services, and what enforcement mechanisms will be employed to ensure compliance with Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,6],"tags":[167,168,166],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal","category-regulation-news","tag-igaming","tag-legislation","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}