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Prohibits social media platforms from creating or maintaining accounts for children under 13, bans platforms from using children’s and teens’ personal data to make personalized algorithmic recommendations (with narrow exceptions), and requires platforms to stop retaining or using children’s data after account termination. Gives the Federal Trade Commission primary enforcement authority and permits state attorneys general to bring civil actions.
Requires elementary and secondary schools that receive discounted internet services under section 254(h) to certify that school-managed networks, devices, and services block student access to social media; directs the Federal Communications Commission to adopt implementing rules and publish a public database of schools’ Internet safety policies. Includes a severability clause and an effective date for the child-account prohibition one year after enactment.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced January 28, 2025 by Brian Emanuel Schatz · Last progress January 28, 2025