On August 12, 2026, Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued a binding preventive measure ordering Discord to suspend its "Go Live" live-streaming feature across Brazil within three business days. The suspension, imposed under the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents (ECA Digital, Lei 15.211/2025), stays in force until Discord proves it has implemented effective technical, security and governance measures to protect minors, and until the ANPD grants express prior authorization to reactivate the feature, wholly or partly.
The cautelar is the first concrete signal that the ANPD will use its ECA Digital powers to suspend a platform feature, not merely open a probe. It expands the administrative enforcement proceeding the ANPD opened against Discord on August 7, 2026, after receiving information from the company on August 10 and meeting its legal representatives on August 11. The ANPD's official release sets out the findings.
What exactly must Discord suspend, and how fast?
Discord must suspend the "Go Live" functionality, used for live streaming inside closed servers, plus any equivalent video-transmission and sharing features, and implement technically effective mechanisms to prevent circumvention. The platform itself is not blocked: text, voice and video calls can continue, and legitimate uses of the service are not targeted. Discord was notified by the ANPD's Superintendence of Enforcement (SFI) and must prove full compliance with the nationwide suspension within three business days.
Reactivation is not automatic. The feature stays down until Discord demonstrates the implementation and effectiveness of measures adequate to the risks the ANPD identified for under-18s. Only then may it request express prior ANPD authorization to restart lives, in whole or in part.
Why did the ANPD target the Go Live feature specifically?
The SFI found robust evidence that Discord had not adopted reasonable measures to prevent or mitigate risks of access to, exposure to, or recommendation of content amounting to serious violations of children's rights, in particular induction, incitement or aid to violence, self-harm and suicide, as required by Article 6, II and III of the ECA Digital. According to the ANPD, the Go Live feature has been repeatedly used to commit serious crimes against minors in recent years.
The ANPD also flagged a structural problem: Discord's technical architecture gives it no access to the content of video transmissions while they occur, so it cannot run real-time audiovisual analysis or detect violations inside a server. It relies on faulty automated systems and on reports from participants in the very spaces where the violations happen. Worse, in early March 2026, just after the ECA Digital was promulgated and days before it entered into force on March 17, 2026, Discord made technical changes to Go Live that the ANPD says made the feature less protective, breaching the design and risk-management duties in Article 6. The measures Discord currently describes are predominantly reactive or of limited preventive effect.
NGO SaferNet Brasil recorded a 54 percent rise in complaints involving Discord in the first seven months of 2026 versus the same period in 2025, with 406 notifications against 264.
Which ECA Digital obligations are in scope, and what fines apply?
The enforcement proceeding examines alleged failures across several ECA Digital duties: Article 6, III (preventing exposure of minors to self-harm and suicide content); Articles 10 and 17 (effective age verification); Article 29 (removal of violating content); and Article 28 (reporting to competent authorities). Discord's own terms set a minimum age of 13.
If irregularities are confirmed, the ANPD may impose corrective measures and sanctions under Article 35 of the ECA Digital, including fines of up to BRL 50 million per infraction. Discord has 10 business days to file an appeal with the SFI; if the Superintendence does not reconsider, it may still appeal to the ANPD's Board of Directors. The cautelar does not prevent the ANPD from negotiating a conformity plan for other aspects of Discord's service.
| Date | Step in the Discord case |
|---|---|
| August 7, 2026 | ANPD opens the enforcement proceeding (processo de fiscalizacao) |
| August 10, 2026 | Discord submits information to the ANPD |
| August 11, 2026 | ANPD meets Discord's legal representatives |
| August 12, 2026 | ANPD issues the preventive measure suspending Go Live |
| 3 business days | Discord must prove full nationwide compliance with the suspension |
| 10 business days | Deadline to appeal the SFI decision |
What does this mean for every platform accessed by minors in Brazil?
For every digital platform accessed by minors operating in Brazil, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Meta, Snap and Roblox included, the measure reframes ECA Digital enforcement from a future threat into a live capability: the ANPD can force a feature suspension within days, before a full sanction is ever issued. The same platforms also face a September 17, 2026 deadline to publish their first ECA Digital transparency report. Continuous, per-jurisdiction real-time monitoring surfaces this kind of change the moment it publishes, so trust-and-safety and Brazil regulatory teams can react inside the compliance window rather than after it closes.
Take advantage of this real-time watch
What to do next: confirm whether your platform offers live-streaming or video-sharing features accessible to minors in Brazil; map them against ECA Digital Articles 6, 10, 17, 28 and 29; verify your age-assurance and real-time content-detection controls can be evidenced to the ANPD; and brief your trust-and-safety, legal and public-policy teams that feature-level suspensions are now an active enforcement tool, not a theoretical one.
