Sponsor
Kat Cammack
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill increases transparency and protects minors by defaulting them to non‑personalized, input‑transparent recommendations with federal enforcement, but it limits state-level innovation, may reduce beneficial personalization for some children, imposes compliance costs, and will withhold some technical details as trade secrets.
Children and their parents will receive clearer notices and disclosures about when recommendation systems begin to target minors, and guardians can see which categories of personal data and engagement metrics are used, improving parental oversight and informed choices.
Minors will be placed on a non-personalized, input‑transparent recommendation default and platforms must offer an easy opt-out or switch, reducing profiling and automated optimization aimed at children.
Consumers and taxpayers gain a federal enforcement pathway because the FTC can enforce these disclosure and default requirements, giving a clear remedy against noncompliant platforms.
State and local governments will be preempted from adopting stricter protections for minors, blocking stronger local privacy or child-protection measures.
Minors who rely on personalized educational, accessibility, or other beneficial tailoring may receive less useful recommendations when defaulted to non-personalized algorithms.
Platforms will incur compliance costs to prepare notices, maintain disclosures, and implement input‑transparent defaults; those costs could be passed to users or reduce available services/features.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires platforms to notify minors about personalized recommenders, provide clear data/transparency notices, offer an easy opt‑out and a default input‑transparent algorithm for minors, enforced by the FTC.
Official title: To require online platforms to disclose policies and provide options relating to personalized recommendations systems to minors, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 21, 2025 by Kat Cammack · Last progress November 21, 2025
Requires online platforms to notify minors when they first encounter a personalized recommendation system, explain how the recommender uses their data, and offer an easy switch to an “input‑transparent” (non‑personalized) algorithm. Platforms must default minors to the input‑transparent option and provide clear opt‑out and profile‑control choices; the FTC enforces violations as unfair or deceptive practices. The law delays effect for one year and protects trade secrets and certain user controls while defining key terms and enforcement authority.