Bill Tracker
Follow legislation affecting privacy, free speech, anonymity, encryption, and digital identity.
Each record explains what the bill does, where it stands, and why it matters.
Tracking 118 bills · Updated September 8, 2026
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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 Companion Chatbot Safety Bill (SB 1119)
Makes chatbot access depend on age determination through California's age-assurance system, or requires operators to treat every user as a child.
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 Worship Buffer-Zone Bill (AB 2664)
Makes it a crime within 100 feet of a place of worship to approach within eight feet without consent to leaflet, display a sign, protest, or educate.
California Under-16 Social Media Ban (AB 1709)
California would bar under-16s from social media accounts with addictive features, and put platforms rather than parents in charge of enforcing it.
GRANITE Act
Would block US courts from enforcing foreign censorship orders and let Americans seek a federal declaration that those demands are unenforceable.
New Zealand Social Media Minimum Age Bill
New Zealand's under-16 ban would cover any platform with recommender feeds, endless scroll, likes, or disappearing stories, and would let a regulator order app stores and internet providers to cut the country off from a platform entirely.
Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
Would make platforms police content for minors, which in practice pushes them to age-verify every user.
Youth AI Privacy Act
Forces AI chatbot makers to treat any user they think is a minor differently. The EFF warns this pushes services toward age checks anyway.
CHATBOT Act
Would make AI chatbot apps tie under-13 accounts to a parent account and get parental consent for teens. It leans on age checks and stores kids' chats for parents to read.
AI Ads Act
Would ban "fraudulent" AI-made political ads, but with no carve-out for parody. Critics say it could catch obvious satire that courts protect.
Digital Age Assurance Act
Would put age checks in every operating system sold in America. You set your age bracket at setup, and apps must use it.
Massachusetts Addictive Feeds Bill (S.3175)
Massachusetts would switch off addictive feeds, autoplay, infinite scroll and overnight notifications for minors by default, and hand the attorney general the job of deciding how platforms work out who is a minor.
EU CSA Regulation (Chat Control 2.0)
The permanent plan to mandate scanning of private messages in Europe. Five trilogue rounds have failed on the same question: suspicionless scanning of encrypted communications.
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.
Canada Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act)
Canada's surveillance rebuild: providers ordered to install monitoring capability, encryption breakable on ministerial demand, and a year of everyone's metadata on file. Passed the Commons; the Senate is what remains.
NO FAKES Act
Creates a federal property right in your face and voice, with a notice-and-takedown system that lets any rights holder pull online content fast.
UK NHS Modernisation Bill
Compels every NHS provider into a single lifetime health record per person, surfaced through the NHS App, the same app ecosystem the digital ID scheme wants to inhabit.
JAWBONE Act
The Cruz-Wyden bill that lets Americans sue the government for pressuring platforms to censor them, whether or not the censorship worked, with the pressure itself logged in public.
Canada Bill C-34 (Safe Social Media Act)
Canada's under-16 social media ban plus a new Digital Safety Commission, with the operative details left to regulations. Keeping minors out means age ID checks on every adult.
New York S8102 (Device Age Checks)
Would push age verification down to the device, operating system, and app store, so a phone checks your age before its software works normally.
UK Representation of the People Bill
Would expand voter registration and election rules; Commons proposals for additional social-media election controls were not called before the bill moved to the Lords.