Latin America
Colombia
Colombia regulates platforms only through general data-protection and consumer law plus a 2025 children's digital-protection framework whose operational rules sit in a still-draft decree; DSA-style transparency duties exist only in pending bills.
Scored against the DSA
Each obligation the DSA imposes on very large platforms, and whether Colombia’s law requires the same. Cells cover DSA-style, user-protective transparency and accountability only.
- Required by law
- Partial / emerging
- No such obligation
- Undetermined
Transparency
Public ad libraryDSA Art. 39
No ad-repository mandate.
Transparency reportsDSA Art. 15 / 24 / 42
Content-moderation transparency duties only proposed in PL 074/2025.
Source ↗Researcher data accessDSA Art. 40
No researcher-access mandate.
Reach disclosureDSA Art. 24(2)
No active-user / reach disclosure mandate.
Accountability
Systemic risk assessmentDSA Art. 34–35
No systemic-risk-assessment mandate.
Independent auditDSA Art. 37
No independent-audit mandate.
Algorithmic transparencyDSA Art. 27 / 38
Algorithm-disclosure duty only proposed in PL 074/2025.
Source ↗Regulator + penaltiesDSA Art. 49–52, 74
SIC enforces data-protection and consumer law only; platform-governance sanctions appear only in proposed bills.
Child protection
No profiling ads to minorsDSA Art. 26(3) / 28
No targeted-ad-to-minors ban in force.
Age assuranceBeyond the DSA
Ley 2489/2025 (in force) frames child online protection; a mandatory age-verification mechanism is set out in a pending MinTIC implementing decree.
Source ↗Child-safety duty of careDSA Art. 28
Ley 2489/2025 imposes child digital-safety duties on platforms; the implementing decree is still in draft.
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On the horizon
What's being debated
PL 074/2025 (social-media platform regulation)
Platform transparency, content-moderation and advertising duties, mandatory disclosure of algorithms used to moderate/rank/recommend content and a local-office requirement, alongside minor-protection rules.
Latest: First-debate committee report (ponencia) filed in the Chamber of Representatives in October 2025. source ↗
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