What is illegal content in Latvia?

REPORT ILLEGAL CONTENT / What is illegal content in Latvia?

Breaches on the internet are materials promoting: cruel behavior, violence, criminalized pornography, racism and hate speech, injure of person’s pride

Illegal content and activities (as stated by the legislation of the Republic of Latvia):
Criminalized Pornography, pornographic images, videos, computer games etc. materials, materials that popularize pornography or references to the home pages where abovementioned materials are available

Pedophilia, images, videos etc. materials consisting pedophilia – statements, images and other materials stimulating or promoting pedophilia, or references to the home pages where such information is available.
/Criminal law (paragraph No. 161, 162),   Protection of the Rights of the Child Law (paragraph No. 15)/

Grooming – encouraging prostitution, pedophilia, violence or participation in other illegal activities.
/Criminal law (154.2, 162, 172) /

Racism and hate speech –  information encouraging racism or genocide, race-hatred incitement, inserting racist images, outspoken incrimination, encouraging joining a racist-minded group, discrimination along ethnic lines, reference to a link, in which racist materials are available, advertising such information.
/Criminal law (paragraph No. 71, 71.1, 71.2, 72, 149, 150, 156)/

Cyber terrorism – intimidation by using internet. By cyber terrorism people understand the use of electronic information and communication means, for instance, e-mail, online messaging, text messages, mobile phones, bleepers and defamatory web pages for intimidating or torturing in some other way a person or a group of persons by using individual attacks or other possibilities.
/Criminal law (paragraph No. 78.2., 88.1.13, 132,)/

Phishing/Falsification of the connection – A kind of social engineering that is characterised by attempts to obtain secret information, for example, passwords and credit card information in a fraudulent manner by claiming to be a trustworthy person or company in as if formal electronic communication, for instance, e-mail or online messaging. The term “phishing” has formed in view of increasingly sophisticated luring methods by using which financial information and passwords are being “fished”.
/Criminal law (paragraph No. 15.4, 144, 177, 180, 193)/

 

IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, sometimes we cannot eliminate the internet content that you personally consider to be a breach on the internet. Incoming information is processed in accordance with legislation of the Republic of Latvia.