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The bill substantially strengthens minors' privacy and gives both private individuals and states new enforcement tools, at the cost of higher compliance and legal exposure for businesses, potential limits on some beneficial data uses for education and safety, and some ambiguity and carve-outs that could produce uneven protection.
Children and teens (and their parents/authorized agents) gain stronger control over minors' personal data because data brokers must stop collecting/sharing certain youth data and must delete minors' data on request with notice provided within 10 days.
Consumers — especially families with minors — are likely to face fewer targeted ads and reduced commercial profiling of children and teens as brokers are restricted from collecting/sharing youth data.
Individuals (including parents/guardians) gain a private right of action to sue data brokers for violations and recover actual damages (with a minimum of $1,000 per violation) plus attorneys' fees, increasing incentives for private enforcement.
Data brokers and covered businesses face higher compliance costs and greater legal risk (statutory damages, treble awards for willful violations, attorneys' fees), which could lead to increased prices, reduced small‑business participation, or defensive over‑compliance.
Schools, educational analytics providers, safety/research services, and the students they serve could lose access to aggregated or analytical data if those services fall under the bill's restrictions, potentially reducing beneficial uses of youth data.
Key terms (e.g., what it means to 'know' a person is a minor or which data is 'reasonably linkable') are ambiguous, creating compliance uncertainty and likely disputes/litigation over scope.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars data brokers from collecting, selling, or sharing personal data of known children or teens, requires deletion with a public 10-day deletion process, and gives the FTC and state AGs enforcement powers.
Introduced November 25, 2025 by Frank Pallone · Last progress November 25, 2025
Bans data brokers from collecting, using, selling, licensing, sharing, or otherwise making available the personal data of individuals the broker knows are children or teens, and requires deletion of any such data. Data brokers must provide a clear public mechanism for deletion requests (from teens, parents/guardians, or authorized agents), comply with a 10-day deletion-and-notification timeline, and publicly disclose that mechanism and their obligations. Enforcement is assigned to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general may sue in federal court to stop violations and seek relief.