New Jersey
New Jersey lawmakers are currently considering a pair of new bills that would require parental consent for users younger than 13 to access social media and punish companies found to be engaged in “addictive” practices. The parental consent bill, called AR167, was proposed by Assemblyman Herb Conaway as a type of follow-up to the failed federal bill called the Kids Online Safety Act. A separate bill called A5069 would force social media companies to conduct quarterly audits and hire an independent third party to determine whether or not the service’s “practices, designs, [or] features,” carry a risk of addicting a child.
