Privacy
Every bill we’re tracking on privacy, with clear summaries of its provisions, status, and effects.
Utah SB 73 (VPN Age Verification)
Utah's update to its adult-site age check law counts anyone physically in Utah as a Utah user even behind a VPN, bans sites from explaining VPNs, and adds a 2% tax on adult content sales.
FLAFO Act (H.R.10606)
Would bar federal agencies from using networked license plate reader systems like Flock without a warrant, and tie Justice Department grants to states adopting the same rule.
Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act
Would ban federal agencies from using facial recognition and other remote biometric surveillance unless Congress authorizes a specific use, and cut federal public safety grants to police that keep using it.
16 & Up Social Media Act
Would exclude under-16s from covered social platforms and pressure services to determine users' ages, threatening anonymous participation and lawful speech.
California Age-Estimation and Child Design Law (AB 2246)
Orders services likely to attract children to estimate users' ages or treat everyone as a child, turning a law advertised as privacy protection into another mass-classification mandate.
California Student Data Privacy Law (AB 1159)
Restricts how education technology companies exploit student records, including a direct ban on using covered student data to train generative AI.
Australia Social Media Minimum Age Enforcement Bill
Expands eSafety’s information-gathering powers and doubles maximum civil penalties under Australia’s social media minimum-age framework.
Stop Rogue AI Act
Would turn verified identity, continuous inventories, real-time monitoring, persistent logs, and revocable access into federal standards for AI agents, creating a control system that could shut open-weight and privately run agents out of trusted networks.
Australia Digital Duty of Care (Consultation Draft)
A government consultation draft combining social-media feed choice with broader online-safety duties enforced by eSafety.
Flock-Off Act
Would cut off federal funding for automated license plate readers and biometric surveillance cameras, including contracts and data-sharing services connected to them.
California Surveillance Pricing Bill (AB 2564)
Would stop retailers from using personal data gathered through electronic surveillance to charge different customers different prices for the same goods.
California AB 2624 (“Stop Nick Shirley Act”)
Shields immigration-support workers' addresses but also expands liability over publishing their names, images, employment details, and other broadly defined personal information.
Parental Approval for Youth Social Media Act of 2026
Would make social-media accounts for under-16s depend on verified parental permission, pressuring platforms to classify every user by age and connect children’s accounts to verified adults.
Illinois HB 5511 (Device Age Signal and Minor Defaults)
Illinois makes device makers, operating systems and app stores ask a user's age at setup and pass that self-declared age to social media platforms as a signal, which then triggers default restrictions for minors.
AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917)
Would force the largest commercial AI providers to build centralized controls that can identify and cut off users, restrict use patterns, or shut models down—requirements fundamentally at odds with open weights that people can run privately beyond a provider’s control.
Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act
Would bar federal agencies from using automated license-plate readers, facial recognition, biometric identification, and other systems built for persistent or mass surveillance.
Ohio HB 251 (Police Drone Surveillance)
Codifies warrantless police-drone surveillance across broad exceptions, including a 50-mile border zone and disaster patrols.
Iowa HF 864 (Adult-Site Age Verification)
Iowa requires sites and apps where a third or more of the content is pornographic for minors to verify users' ages, including through digital ID.
North Carolina HB 301 (Social Media & AI Safety)
The Senate version of North Carolina HB 301 bans social media accounts for children under 14 and makes platforms verify users' ages, and the bill now sits in a conference committee.
New Jersey Online Age Verification Bill (A5305)
New Jersey would require websites and other online services carrying covered sexual material to verify every visitor is at least 18.
West Virginia HB 4412 (Adult-Site Age Verification)
West Virginia requires adult sites and apps to verify users are 18 or older, names WV Mobile ID as an approved method, and lets parents sue for $10,000 per incident.
Arizona HB 2991 (Social Media and App Store Age Checks)
Arizona's HB 2991 started as a social media and adult-site age check bill, then the Senate rewrote it into an app store and operating system age mandate before it stalled.
New York S.9051-B (AI Companion Age Checks)
New York's legislature passed a bill that locks the human-like features of AI companion chatbots until the operator has checked that the user is an adult.
Colorado SB26-051 (Device Age Signal)
Colorado makes operating systems ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup and pass that self-declared age to apps as a signal, which apps must request at first launch.
Oklahoma HB 1275 (Social Media Age Verification)
Oklahoma's House passed a bill that would have barred users under 16 from social media and made platforms verify the age of all account holders.
Connecticut SB 5 (Online Safety, Feed Age Checks)
Connecticut's online safety law bars personalized feeds for any user a platform has not checked is an adult, unless a parent consents, starting in 2028.
Minnesota HF 4138 (Addictive Social Media, Age Estimation)
Minnesota's addictive social media law makes platforms estimate account holders' ages from their activity and treat anyone they cannot place at 16 or older as a child.
New York Safe by Design Act (Age Checks for Social Features)
New York's Safe by Design Act blocks messaging, profile viewing, tagging and other core social features until a platform checks the user's age, and bans self-declared age.
Missouri HB 1887 (Megan Meier Act)
Missouri's House voted 145-3 to make social media platforms verify the age of all Missouri users before they open an account, and to bar under-16s from holding accounts of their own.
New Hampshire SB 648 (Adult Site Age Verification)
New Hampshire's Senate passed a bill making commercial porn sites verify the age of visitors, and the House killed it in May 2026.
Georgia SB 540 (AI Companion Chatbots)
Georgia's AI companion chatbot law requires an age check before a user can reach any chatbot feature that may generate sexually explicit content.
Kansas SB 372 (App Store Accountability Act)
Kansas's SB 372 would have required app stores to verify the age of every Kansas account holder, and it nearly passed inside an unrelated farm theft bill.
Michigan SB 757 (SAFE for Kids Act)
Michigan's SB 757 would bar personalized social media feeds for any user a platform has not age-checked or cleared with parental consent.
Surveillance Accountability Act
Would require a probable-cause warrant for government access to third-party data and let people seek redress when federal officials violate their Fourth Amendment rights.
Nebraska Conversational AI Safety Act (LB 525)
Nebraska now requires chatbots to admit they are machines, adds protections for minors talking to them, and bars any bot from claiming to offer mental health care.
Alaska HB 47 (Social Media Age Check Amendment)
A House floor amendment turned Alaska's bill on AI-generated child abuse imagery into a social media age verification law, and a Senate committee cut those sections back out.
Australia Fix Our Feeds Bill
Would let social-media users switch off algorithmic recommendations and impose wider platform risk-assessment and reporting duties.
Kentucky HB 227 (Social Media Age Estimation)
Kentucky's HB 227 would have made large social media platforms estimate every user's age from the data they already hold, and treat users as under 16 until proven otherwise.
Wisconsin AB 962 / SB 937 (App Store Age Verification)
Wisconsin's Assembly passed an app store bill that would have required age verification for all accounts and parental consent for a minor's downloads.
Florida SB 1722 (App Store Accountability Act)
Florida's SB 1722 would have required app stores to verify the age of every Florida account holder and get parental consent for minors' downloads.
Washington SB 5708 / HB 1834 (Addictive Feeds)
Washington's Attorney General-requested bill would have required addictive-feed services to estimate users' ages and withhold personalized feeds from anyone not shown to be an adult.
Indiana HEA 1408 (Social Media, Under-16 Consent)
Indiana's social media law makes large platforms keep estimating users' ages as they log hours, and shuts down under-16 accounts that lack parental consent.
South Dakota HB 1275 (App Store Age Verification)
South Dakota's House passed an app store bill requiring age verification for all accounts, and a Senate committee killed it by one vote.
Connecticut HB 6857 (Social Media Feeds and Minors)
Connecticut's HB 6857 would have blocked personalized social media feeds for anyone a platform had not age-checked or cleared with parental consent.
Texas HB 186 (Under-18 Social Media Ban)
The Texas House voted to bar everyone under 18 from social media and to make platforms verify that new account holders are adults.
Alabama SB 187 (App Store Accountability Act, 2025)
Alabama's first app store age verification bill passed the Senate in 2025, stalled in a House committee, and came back in 2026 as HB 161, which became law.
Colorado SB25-201 (Age Checks for Online Sexual Materials)
Colorado's SB25-201 would have required adult sites to verify the age of every visitor and uploader, and it died when the Senate kept putting off a floor vote.
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