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Mexico

0%DSA alignment

Mexico has no DSA-style platform-transparency or accountability regime; its 2025 telecom and data-protection overhauls touch platforms only narrowly, and every child-safety and age-verification duty remains a proposed bill.

In forceLey en Materia de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión (LMTR) (2025)· CRT / ATDT
ProposedIniciativa de protección de menores en entornos digitales (federal bill) (2026)· n/a

Scored against the DSA

Each obligation the DSA imposes on very large platforms, and whether Mexico’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

  • No such obligation

    Public ad libraryDSA Art. 39

    No public ad-repository mandate; PROFECO only fines misleading ads under consumer law, and the LMTR merely bars selling ad space to foreign governments.

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  • No such obligation

    Transparency reportsDSA Art. 15 / 24 / 42

    No content-moderation transparency-report mandate in the 2025 LMTR.

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  • No such obligation

    Researcher data accessDSA Art. 40

    No vetted-researcher data-access mandate; the only data-access duty is a tax-authority feed on false-invoice ads.

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  • No such obligation

    Reach disclosureDSA Art. 24(2)

    No active-user / reach disclosure requirement.

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Accountability

  • No such obligation

    Systemic risk assessmentDSA Art. 34–35

    No systemic-risk duty in force; proposed only in the 2026 federal minors bill.

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  • No such obligation

    Independent auditDSA Art. 37

    No independent-audit mandate in any in-force statute.

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  • No such obligation

    Algorithmic transparencyDSA Art. 27 / 38

    No recommender-transparency mandate; the 2025 data-protection law only requires disclosing automated decisions in privacy notices.

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  • No such obligation

    Regulator + penaltiesDSA Art. 49–52, 74

    No dedicated platform-governance regulator; the CRT's 0.01%-10%-of-revenue fines attach only to the foreign-government-ad ban, not to transparency failures.

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Child protection

  • No such obligation

    No profiling ads to minorsDSA Art. 26(3) / 28

    No ban on profiling ads to minors; the 2025 LFPDPPP only requires parental consent to process minors' data.

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  • No such obligation

    Age assuranceBeyond the DSA

    No in-force age-verification mandate (an acknowledged legal vacuum); proposed in a Feb 2026 federal bill and parallel Senate/state bills.

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  • No such obligation

    Child-safety duty of careDSA Art. 28

    No platform child-safety duty of care in force; proposed in the 2026 federal minors bill.

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