Parents Over Platforms Act

This bill would require app stores on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and virtual reality devices to ask users their age when they create an account and to share an age signal with app developers when the user or a parent agrees. App stores would have to let parents block their minor children from getting or using certain apps. Developers of apps that offer different experiences for adults and minors would have to make reasonable efforts to tell adults from minors, get consent before minors access content marked unsuitable for them, and not show personalized ads to minors. The Federal Trade Commission would enforce the law, state laws on the same subject would be overridden, and the law would take effect two years after it is enacted.

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Sponsors

• Jerry Moran Republican sponsor
• 3 cosponsors