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European UnionEuropean Unionunverified
Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy Act
The European Commission adopted a legislative proposal aimed at strengthening the protection of children online.
Online safety and kids
300 on file · 187 became law · 41 still moving · 16 moved in 30 days
European Union
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
Child AI Chatbot Safety Law
New York enacts restrictions on specific chatbot features and behaviors to protect children.
European UnionEuropean Unionunverified
Digital Services Act TikTok Investigation
The European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over harmful algorithmic rabbit hole effects in its recommender system.
AustraliaAustraliaunverified
Digital Duty of Care Bill
The bill requires online services to protect children from digital harms including those involving artificial intelligence.
European UnionEuropean Unionunverified
KIDS Act
The European Commission published a proposal for the KIDS Act to enhance online safety for children.
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
Child AI Chatbot Protection Bills
New York enacted legislation to protect children from risks associated with artificial intelligence chatbots and internet-connected baby monitors.
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
AI Chatbot and Baby Monitor Safety Act
The law requires safety features on baby monitors and bans unsafe artificial intelligence chatbots targeted at minors.
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Safety Bill
The law prohibits artificial intelligence chatbots from offering unsafe interactions to minors.
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
Child AI Chatbot Restrictions Law
New York enacted legislation banning artificial intelligence chatbots from acting as friends or romantic partners to children.
New YorkNew Yorkunverified
Chatbot Companion Ban for Minors
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation banning artificial intelligence chatbots from acting as friends or romantic partners to minors.
AustraliaAustraliaunverified
Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026
The bill imposes a digital duty of care on online services that generate material using artificial intelligence.
GreeceGreeceunverified
Social Media Ban for Children Under 15
Greece's parliament passed legislation that bans children under the age of 15 from using social media platforms.
GeorgiaGeorgiaunverified
Georgia Social Media Law
A federal appeals court lifted a stay blocking Georgia from enforcing its law restricting children from accessing social media.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 2481
Romance Scam Prevention Act
Would require online dating services to notify users who received messages from accounts banned for fraud.
FloridaFloridaunverified
Florida Youth Social Media Protection Law
A federal appeals court upheld a Florida law barring children under 14 from opening social media accounts and requiring parental consent for older minors.
GeorgiaGeorgiaunverified
Georgia Social Media Age Verification Law
A federal appeals court lifted an injunction, allowing Georgia to enforce its law requiring social media platforms to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaunverified
AI Deepfake Nude App Ban Bill
This bill prohibits applications that use artificial intelligence to generate fake nude images of real people.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 10719
To establish age-appropriate design standards and safety safeguards for artificial intelligence chatbots accessed by minors, and for other purposes.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
CaliforniaCaliforniaunverified
AI therapy chatbot ban bill
This bill would have prohibited artificial intelligence algorithms from providing or advertising therapy services.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1705
Pornographic Internet Websites: Depicted Individuals
Would require pornographic website operators to take reasonable steps to ensure displayed and uploaded sexually explicit content does not include individuals who did not consent or were minors.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 10515
To establish a human-centered Federal framework for artificial intelligence in education and the workforce, promote the ethical and responsible teaching and learning of artificial intelligence, provide for equitable access to artificial intelligence-ready workforce development, safeguard student and
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 7834
Safe Cloud Storage Act
Would limit liability for vendors that provide cloud storage to law enforcement for child sexual abuse material held as evidence.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 83, 2026
Online Safety Amendment (Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2026
Doubles the maximum civil penalties for breaching the social media minimum age obligations and expands the eSafety Commissioner's powers to obtain compliance information.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 127, 2024
Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024
Amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to require providers of age-restricted social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 from having accounts.
CaliforniaCaliforniaSB 1119
Companion Chatbots: Children's Safety (Adam's Law)
Requires companion chatbot operators, beginning July 1, 2027, to perform and document child safety risk assessments and meet other child safety duties before offering new or substantially modified chatbots in California.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1709
Covered Platforms: Age Restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission
Bars covered platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, with Attorney General enforcement, and creates an e-Safety Advisory Commission in the Department of Justice.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 2246
Online Services Accessed by Children
Repeals the enjoined Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and replaces it with similar duties requiring online services likely to be accessed by children to take reasonable steps to prevent specified risks of harm.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1856
Age Verification Signals: Software Applications
Amends the Digital Age Assurance Act to revise how operating systems collect age information and send age signals to app stores and app developers.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1946
Reporting Mechanism: Child Sexual Abuse Material
Expands social media platform reporting duties for child sexual abuse material to cover intimate depictions of identifiable minors and makes noncompliant platforms liable to depicted individuals.
CaliforniaCaliforniaSB 867
Toys: Companion Chatbots
Bans the manufacture or sale in California of toys that include a companion chatbot until January 1, 2031.
TexasTexasHB 18
SCOPE Act (Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment)
Requires digital service providers to register users' ages, limit collection and use of minors' data, give parents supervision tools, and filter harmful content for known minors.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 15, 2025
Scams Prevention Framework Act 2025
Amends the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to create a Scams Prevention Framework imposing scam prevention, detection, reporting and response obligations on designated sectors such as banks, telecommunications and digital platforms.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 2023
Companion Chatbots: Children's Safety
Would have required companion chatbot operators to perform annual child safety risk assessments and audits, with Attorney General reporting and a private right of action for harmed children.
MissouriMissouriHB 1839
Civil liability for publishing material harmful to minors on the internet
Establishes civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
FranceFranceLoi n. 2026-813 du 24 aout 2026
Law protecting minors from the risks of social networks
French law on protecting minors from social network risks whose central ban on social media access for under-15s was struck down by the Constitutional Council, leaving provisions amending the Penal Code and the 2004 digital economy law and requiring schools to address screen exposure and restrict mobile phones.
FranceFranceDecision n. 2026-911 DC
Constitutional Council decision on the under-15 social media ban
Constitutional Council decision striking down the law's blanket ban on social network access for under-15s as a disproportionate restriction on freedom of expression and communication, citing the lack of any parental authorization, service-specific risk assessment or legal safeguards for age verification data.
New JerseyNew JerseyA4015
New Jersey Kids Code Act
Codifies the New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code, requiring online services to limit collection of children's data, set high-privacy defaults for minors and restrict engagement-maximizing features.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 1748
Kids Online Safety Act
Would set a duty of care for covered online platforms to prevent specified harms to minors and require default safeguards and parental tools.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 1606
Nudification technology ban
Bars websites, apps and services from letting users nudify images or videos of identifiable people and from advertising such tools, with a private right of action and attorney general civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation.
European UnionEuropean UnionRegulation (EU) 2026/1881
Interim ePrivacy derogation to combat online child sexual abuse (2026 re-adoption)
Restores, until 3 April 2028, a temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that lets messaging and other communications providers voluntarily detect, report and remove online child sexual abuse material, after the earlier interim regulation expired on 3 April 2026.
MinnesotaMinnesotaSF 4097
Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act and net neutrality (2024 commerce policy omnibus)
Commerce policy omnibus that enacted the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act requiring social media platforms to publicly disclose engagement limits, ranking signals, usage statistics and product experiments, and barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic.
New YorkNew YorkS 7694-A / A 8148-A
Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act
Bars social media platforms from giving users under 18 algorithmic addictive feeds or overnight notifications without parental consent, with age determination rules set by the Attorney General.
European UnionEuropean UnionRegulation (EU) 2022/2065
Digital Services Act
Sets due diligence obligations for online intermediaries and platforms on illegal content, transparency, advertising and protection of minors, with extra systemic risk duties for very large online platforms and search engines supervised by the Commission.
European UnionEuropean UnionC(2025) 8630 final
DSA non-compliance decision against X
First Digital Services Act non-compliance decision, fining X 120 million euros for deceptive design of its blue checkmark (Article 25(1)), a deficient advertising repository (Article 39) and failing to give researchers access to public data (Article 40(12)).
ChinaChinaCAC Order No. 21
Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services
Regulates AI companion and other human-like emotional interaction services, barring virtual intimate relationship services for minors and requiring safeguards against emotional dependence and separate consent before chat data is used for training.
MassachusettsMassachusettsS 3175
An Act protecting children from addictive social media feeds
Would restrict addictive social media feeds for minors.
HawaiiHawaiiSB 3001
Relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI companions)
Requires AI companion operators to make disclosures, maintain suicide and self-harm response protocols, protect minor users, and report annually to the Department of Health starting in 2028.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 7757
KIDS Act
Would require online platforms to add safeguards for minors, including limits on sexual material, parental controls on social media and games, and disclosures by AI chatbots.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 2
Social media mental health warning label (2025 health and human services omnibus)
Special session health omnibus that requires social media platforms, starting July 1, 2026, to show a mental health warning label with crisis resources each time a user accesses the platform, under guidelines set by the Department of Health.
KenyaKenyaAct No. 17 of 2025
Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2025
Amends Kenya's Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act of 2018, including new offences and powers for the National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Committee to act against unlawful websites and applications.