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The bill increases protections for minors' privacy and reduces their exposure to harmful online content while creating federal enforcement, but it risks wrongful account deletions, tight data-recovery windows, added platform costs, and limits states' ability to adopt different or stronger rules.
Children under 16 will have their social media accounts removed, reducing their exposure to targeted advertising, harassment, and other harmful online content.
Parents and families gain stronger control and privacy because platforms must delete minors' personal data on account termination and provide a 90-day portable data retrieval window.
Consumers get a federal enforcement pathway via the FTC, creating a single regulator that can pursue violations and help ensure more consistent nationwide protections.
Children and families risk wrongful account deletions if teens are misidentified as under 16, causing loss of access to content, social connections, and services.
The 90-day data request window and 45-day fulfillment timeline may be too short for some families to recover important information before deletion.
Broad deletion and portability requirements will impose operational and compliance costs on platforms that could be passed to users through reduced features or higher costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bans covered platforms from hosting accounts for users known to be under 16 and requires identification, termination, and deletion of such accounts with limited data-portability rights.
Official title: To prohibit certain platforms from allowing minors to create or maintain an account or profile on such platforms, and for other proposes.
Introduced December 5, 2025 by Erin Houchin · Last progress December 5, 2025
Prohibits covered social media platforms from allowing users known to be under 16 to create or maintain accounts, requires platforms to identify and terminate existing accounts for minors, and mandates deletion or portable export of personal data after termination. Enforcement is handled by the Federal Trade Commission with a limited state parens patriae enforcement option; the rule takes effect one year after enactment.