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On 20 February 2026, the Bill for the protection of cognitive autonomy (7344-D-2025), including design requirements, was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill would require platforms to implement "safe by design" default configurations for verified minor users, including limits on continuous session duration and periodic active pauses. Other design obligations include reducing notification frequency during school and nighttime hours and deactivating automatic content playback. Additionally, platforms would be required to attenuate or deactivate quantified social validation metrics, such as interaction counters. Protective configurations may be modified by minors over 13 years of age with the verifiable consent of the parent or guardian. Finally, the Bill prohibits any design practices that substantially hinder or prevent users under 13 from exercising their rights or accessing protective safety configurations. The Agency for Access to Public Information would be tasked with establishing specific parameters for these configurations based on updated scientific evidence and proportionality. Platforms have 12 months from the date the National Executive Branch releases the specific rules and procedures needed to implement the Bill.
On 20 February 2026, the Bill for the protection of cognitive autonomy (7344-D-2025), including a prohibition on the behavioural profiling of minors, was introduced to the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill regulates “mass-reaching digital platforms”. The phrase refers to any platform that serves as a digital intermediary in Argentina that meets the thresholds of active user volume or billing established by subsequent regulations. The Bill would prohibit the use of intensive behavioural profiling for personalised recommendations and advertising directed at children under 13 years of age. It also bans the implementation of addictive design techniques for this age group. For adolescents between 13 and 16 years of age, the Bill prohibits advertising based on individual behavioural profiling, allowing only non-personalised contextual advertising. Furthermore, the Bill prohibits any design practices that substantially hinder or prevent users from exercising their rights or accessing protective safety configurations. Platforms have 12 months from the date the National Executive Branch publishes the rules and procedures needed to implement the Bill to enact these protections. The Bill would also create a National Registry of Mass Algorithmic Recommendation Systems, requiring covered platforms to register and maintain updated records. These records must include a general description of the recommendation systems used, the declared optimisation objectives, and the categories of data utilised for user profiling. Platforms would also be required to declare the existence of any differentiated systems specifically designed for minor users. Under the Bill, this registry would be accessible to the public, although certain information may remain confidential to protect industrial secrecy. Covered platforms have 6 months from the creation of legal implementation procedures by the National Executive Branch. The National Executive Branch must issue the procedures for this Bill within 180 days following its promulgation.
On 20 February 2026, the Bill for the protection of cognitive autonomy (7344-D-2025), including quality of service requirements, was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill regulates “mass-reaching digital platforms”, which refers to any platform that serves as a digital intermediary in Argentina that meets the thresholds of active user volume or billing established by subsequent regulations. Article 11 of the Bill would mandate that mass-reaching digital platforms offering services to minors conduct a child rights impact assessment before launching new functionalities or making substantial changes to recommendation systems. These assessments must identify potential risks to the cognitive, emotional, and social development of minors and must describe the specific mitigation measures adopted by the platform. The Bill requires that these assessments be made available for review by the Enforcement Authority, while maintaining safeguards for industrial secrecy and strategic information. Platforms have 24 months from the date the National Executive Branch publishes the rules and procedures needed to implement the Bill to conduct their first child impact assessment. The National Executive Branch must regulate the Bill within 180 days of its promulgation.
On 20 February 2026, the Bill for the protection of cognitive autonomy (7344-D-2025), including user rights, was introduced to the Chamber of Deputies. Article 5 of the Bill would establish several inalienable rights for users of “mass-reaching digital platforms” (any digital intermediary platform in Argentina that meets the thresholds of active user volume or billing established by subsequent regulations), including the right to know the general criteria governing recommendation systems and the right to opt for non-personalised displays such as chronological feeds. Users would also have the right to grant or revoke consent for algorithmic personalisation based on profiling at any time without losing essential service functionalities. Furthermore, platforms would be required to provide usage configuration tools that allow users to set voluntary limits on time, notifications, and content of certain categories. Article 6 states that consent for personalisation must be obtained through explicit opt-in mechanisms and must be free of "dark patterns" that hinder user choice. The mechanism to revoke consent must be simple and accessible to users. Article 14 outlines a requirement for covered platforms to annually publish in a clear and understandable format an algorithmic transparency report. Such reports must include a description of the main factors determining content recommendation, the types of data used, and the purposes of profiling, measures adopted for the protection of minor users, and the number and nature of complaints received for non-compliance and actions taken in response. Platforms have 6 months from the date the National Executive Branch publishes the rules and procedures needed to implement the Bill to meet the requirements of Articles 5 and 6. Platforms have 18 months from this date to publish the first algorithmic transparency report under Article 14. The National Executive Branch shall regulate the Bill within 180 days of its promulgation.
On 19 February 2026, the Bill Preventive Mental Health Regime in Digital Environments (7340-D-2025) was introduced to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The Bill would establish proportional age verification obligations for digital platforms to enable differentiated protections for minors in digital environments. It would apply to platforms established in Argentina and to foreign platforms targeting the Argentine market with more than 100’000 monthly active users domiciled in Argentina, local advertising, or localised payment methods, while platforms below 10’000 users and certain encrypted private messaging services would be excluded. The Bill would further establish quality of service obligations for covered platforms. Platforms would be required to design, develop, and operate their services with due regard to users’ mental health, particularly that of children and adolescents. They would also be required to identify, assess, and mitigate psychosocial risks arising from service functionalities, design architectures, and algorithmic recommendation systems. Platforms would be required to ensure that algorithmic systems do not disproportionately amplify content promoting self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, extreme violence, or other serious mental health risks. They would have to establish internal protocols for crisis detection, escalation, and response, including referral mechanisms to professional or emergency services. Platforms would also be required to provide periodic staff training on digital mental health and the prevention of psychological harm. In addition, they would have to publish annual Transparency and Digital Wellbeing Reports, cooperate with the enforcement authority in supervisory activities, and ensure the accessibility of digital wellbeing tools and safety settings for persons with disabilities.
On 19 February 2026, the Bill Preventive Mental Health Regime in Digital Environments (7340-D-2025) was introduced to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The Bill would establish user rights in digital environments aimed at safeguarding cognitive autonomy and psychological well-being. It would grant users the right to be informed in advance when interacting with algorithmic recommendations or personalisation systems and to choose non-personalised, chronological, or limited-personalisation viewing modes without functional penalties. Users would be entitled to pause, limit, adjust, or deactivate automated recommendation systems while retaining access to essential service functionalities. The Bill would also provide users with rights to access data relating to their usage time and behavioural profiles, request deletion of behavioural profiles and cessation of recommendations based on historical data, and receive understandable explanations of the general criteria by which content is recommended or prioritised. In addition, platforms would be required to provide clear and accessible information on the functioning of their algorithmic systems, the visibility and prioritisation metrics used, identified psychosocial risks, mitigation measures implemented, available complaint channels, and their data processing policies. Users would also have the right to interact in digital environments that do not exploit cognitive or emotional vulnerabilities and that do not engage in algorithmic discrimination based on inferred or declared mental health conditions.
On 19 February 2026, the Bill Preventive Mental Health Regime in Digital Environments (7340-D-2025) was introduced to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The Bill would establish design obligations for digital platforms aimed at reducing mental health risks associated with algorithmic recommendation systems, with particular focus on children and adolescents. It would apply to platforms established in Argentina and to foreign platforms targeting the Argentine market with more than 100’000 monthly active users domiciled in Argentina, local advertising, or localised payment methods, while platforms below 10’000 users and certain encrypted private messaging services would be excluded. The Bill would require the implementation of a protected mode for minors that limits high-risk psychosocial design features by default. For users under 13, autoplay, infinite scrolling, night-time notifications between 22:00 and 07:00, behavioural profiling-based recommendation systems, public social validation metrics, real-time geolocation, and behavioural advertising would be prohibited. The Bill would also require platforms to provide non-personalised feed options, allow users to disable recommendation systems, inform users when content is personalised, and implement measures to mitigate the amplification of self-harm and similar harmful content.
On 6 February 2026, the Argentine National Congress introduced the Legal Framework for the Algorithmic Management of Work on Digital Platforms (Bill 7238-D-2025). The Bill would apply to digital platform companies operating in Argentina and providing intermediary services for delivery, messaging, distribution or passenger transport, regardless of their place of incorporation. It would establish a mandatory National Registry of Digital Platforms, requiring companies to register before commencing operations in Argentina. Registered companies would be required to submit legal identification details, operational descriptions, documentation of algorithmic systems used for task allocation and pricing, model documentation including versions and technical specifications, and audit logs enabling the reconstruction of automated decisions. They would also be required to provide contact information for designated technical and legal representatives in Argentina. Companies already operating at the time of entry into force would be required to register within 120 days. The Bill would designate the Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Social Security as the authority responsible for enforcing the registration obligation.
On 22 November 2025, the Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) issued a Declaration following the South Africa Summit, addressing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Governance, and Innovation for Sustainable Development. The Leaders welcomed the work of the Task Force on AI, Data Governance and Innovation for Sustainable Development (Task Force) and reaffirmed the G20 AI principles, recalling earlier commitments in the New Delhi and Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declarations. The Declaration identifies requirements for safe, secure, and trustworthy AI development, deployment, and use, addressing human rights, transparency, explainability, fairness, accountability, regulation, safety, appropriate human oversight, ethics, biases, privacy, data protection, and data governance. It recognises the role of the United Nations (UN), alongside other relevant fora, in advancing international cooperation on AI to support sustainable development. The Leaders noted the establishment of the Technology Policy Assistance Facility (TPAF) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to support countries in shaping AI policies. They also welcomed the launch of the AI for Africa Initiative, a voluntary platform for cooperation between the G20 and the African Union (AU), promoting access to computing power, skilled talent, representative datasets, and digital infrastructure, and supporting Africa-centric sovereign AI capabilities through long-term partnerships supported by voluntary technical and financial contributions.
On 18 September 2025, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Argentina’s Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) to boost cooperation in privacy and personal data protection. The MoU applies to entities involved in cross-border data transfers, public consultations, and Artificial Intelligence regulatory sandboxes. It sets a framework for exchanging regulatory experiences, sharing investigation information, conducting joint inspections, and developing education, training, and research programmes.
On 9 September 2025, the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) Communication A 8321updating the National Payment System-Immediate Debit (DEBIN) under Circular SINAP 1-236, enters into force. The regulation establishes the framework for immediate debit transfers requiring prior customer authorisation through internet banking, mobile banking, or interfaces provided by Payment Service Providers offering Payment Accounts (PSPCP). The instrument defines two modalities, occasional DEBIN requiring express authorisation for each transaction, and recurrent DEBIN, including the “programmed DEBIN” variant for fixed-instalment payments. It sets prohibitions on the use of recurrent DEBIN for loan-related charges and on the use of programmed DEBIN by commercial activities linked to lotteries, casinos, or gambling. The scope extends to natural and legal persons holding current accounts or payment accounts in entities or PSPCP authorised to issue debit orders. The scheme allows transactions in pesos and United States dollars between accounts of the same currency, operates 24 hours with immediate settlement, provides free debits for clients, establishes maximum interchange fees of 0.3% with caps in Acquisition Value Units (UVA) for recurrent DEBIN, and defines reversal and chargeback rules, including a 30-day dispute window for recurrent transactions.
On 8 September 2025, the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) adopted Communication A 8321, with effect from 9 September 2025, updating the National Payment System-Immediate Debit (DEBIN) under Circular SINAP 1-236. The regulation establishes the framework for immediate debit transfers requiring prior customer authorisation through internet banking, mobile banking, or interfaces provided by Payment Service Providers offering Payment Accounts (PSPCP). The instrument defines two modalities, occasional DEBIN requiring express authorisation for each transaction, and recurrent DEBIN, including the “programmed DEBIN” variant for fixed-instalment payments. It sets prohibitions on the use of recurrent DEBIN for loan-related charges and on the use of programmed DEBIN by commercial activities linked to lotteries, casinos, or gambling. The scope extends to natural and legal persons holding current accounts or payment accounts in entities or PSPCP authorised to issue debit orders. The scheme allows transactions in pesos and United States dollars between accounts of the same currency, operates 24 hours with immediate settlement, provides free debits for clients, establishes maximum interchange fees of 0.3% with caps in Acquisition Value Units (UVA) for recurrent DEBIN, and defines reversal and chargeback rules, including a 30-day dispute window for recurrent transactions.
On 2 September 2025, the European Commission adopted proposals for Council decisions on the signature and conclusion of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA) and the interim Trade Agreement. The agreement will establish a free trade zone encompassing over 700 million consumers. EMPA includes provisions on e-commerce, covering electronic contracts and signatures, the removal of customs duties on digital transmissions, the prohibition of prior authorisations for online services, and measures to promote consumer protection and cooperation on digital regulation.
On 14 August 2025, the Bill on the Regulation of development, implementation and use of facial recognition technologies (Bill no. 4420-D-2025) was introduced to the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill applies to public entities using facial recognition systems for crime prevention, investigations, and infrastructure security, and to private providers supplying them. The Bill requires prior authorisation and impact assessments for the use of such technologies. It limits use to serious crimes, missing persons, arrest warrants, and critical infrastructure, banning mass surveillance, routine tracking, and profiling. Biometric data is treated as sensitive, and population-wide databases are banned. The Bill mandates transparency, audits, technical documentation, and full traceability.
On 7 August 2025, the Bill on Personal Data Protection in Artificial Intelligence Systems (No. 4243-D-2025) was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill aims to establish a legal regime applicable to the use of personal data of citizens by natural or legal persons that develop, operate, implement, or commercialise artificial intelligence (AI) systems, covering any personal data processing conducted within Argentine territory or targeting persons in Argentina, irrespective of the operator’s location. The Bill adopts definitions of personal data from Law No. 25.326 and designates the competent authority to be appointed by the National Executive Power pursuant to Law No. 26.939. The Bill includes transparency obligations requiring operators to disclose system purpose, logic, automation level, use of personal data, and to enable the exercise of data subject rights. It requires risk evaluations considering nature, scope, context, and mitigation measures, and classifies risks as low, medium, or high, with mandatory registration in the National Registry of Artificial Intelligence Systems for medium- and high-risk systems, including developer details, system description, impact assessment, and data protection policies. The authority is empowered to conduct audits, require documentation, and suspend systems posing serious risks, with sanctions ranging from warnings to suspension, prohibition of use, and fines proportionate to turnover, benefits, number of affected individuals, and intent or negligence. The Bill stipulates that the Executive must regulate it within 60 days of promulgation, existing systems must comply within 180 days, it enters into force 30 days after publication in the Official Gazette, and invites provincial and Buenos Aires City adherence
On 15 May 2025, Bill establishing the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies (2397-D-2025) was introduced to the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill also redefines the duties of the existing Committee on Science and Productive Innovation. The Bill states that the Committee on Science and Productive Innovation will be responsible for issuing opinions on issues and Bills concerning scientific research and productive innovation, while the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies will be responsible for issuing opinions on the entire technological lifecycle of artificial intelligence and all other emerging technologies.
Last updated: 20/02/2026