Parents Over Platforms Act

This bill would require app stores on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and virtual reality devices to ask account holders their age when they create an account. App stores would have to let developers check a user's age category, called an "age signal," when the user or a parent agrees to share it, and would have to let parents block minors from getting certain apps. App developers whose apps offer different experiences for adults and minors would have to make efforts to determine whether a user is an adult or a minor, could not show personalized advertising to minors, and would have to limit how they use and share age information. The Federal Trade Commission would enforce the law, and states and local governments could not keep or enforce their own laws related to the bill's provisions.

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Sponsors

• Jake Auchincloss Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors