300 on file · 187 became law · 41 still moving · 16 moved in 30 days
United NationsThe Global Digital Compact, annexed to the Pact for the Future, sets shared objectives on closing digital divides, an inclusive and safe digital space, data governance and international AI governance, including the decision to create a scientific panel and global dialogue on AI.
United States (federal)Would require app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors download apps.
United States (federal)House version of the Kids Online Safety Act requiring covered platforms to adopt safeguards and parental tools for minors.
United States (federal)House version of COPPA 2.0 extending online privacy protections to teens.
FloridaBars social media accounts for children under 14, requires parental consent for 14 and 15 year olds, and requires age verification for websites with material harmful to minors.
United States (federal)House subcommittee hearing on the risks and benefits of AI chatbots for consumers and minors.
IndiaSubstitutes rule 3(1)(d) of India's IT Rules 2021 to change how intermediaries must act on court orders and government notices under section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act to remove unlawful information.
European UnionSets the technical conditions and procedures under which very large online platforms and search engines must share data with vetted researchers under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act.
CaliforniaRequires companion chatbot operators to disclose that the chatbot is AI, maintain protocols against suicide and self-harm content, add safeguards for known minors and report annually to the Office of Suicide Prevention.
CaliforniaRequires operating system providers to collect a user's age at account setup and send an age bracket signal to app stores and developers, beginning January 1, 2027.
CaliforniaRequires social media platforms to show users a black box warning when they first access the platform each day, after 3 hours of use and hourly after that, beginning January 1, 2027.
CaliforniaExpands civil liability for digitized sexually explicit material, including material depicting minors, and for services that knowingly enable deepfake pornography services to operate.
European UnionCommission guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act setting out measures online platforms accessible to minors should take to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security, including age assurance methods and protections against grooming, harmful content and exploitative commercial practices.
MontanaMakes it a crime to create or distribute real or digitally fabricated sexually explicit images of a person without consent.
MontanaAmends the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act by lowering applicability thresholds, adding protections for minors' data and expanding attorney general enforcement.
NevadaExpands prohibitions relating to pornography involving minors and revises the penalties for those crimes.
OhioState operating budget that requires the Department of Education and Workforce to develop a model policy on AI use in schools and requires websites offering material harmful to juveniles to verify users' ages.
United States (federal)Senate subcommittee hearing on harms to children and teens from AI companion chatbots.
CaliforniaBars platforms from giving minors addictive algorithmic feeds without parental consent and limits notifications to minors overnight and during school hours.
United States (federal)The Ninth Circuit largely affirmed the refusal to block California's law limiting minors' access to algorithmic feeds, while finding NetChoice likely to succeed against a default setting hiding like counts on minors' accounts.
ChinaRequires providers of AI generation services and content distribution platforms to add explicit visible labels and implicit metadata labels to AI-generated text, audio, images, video and virtual scenes, and bars removing or forging those labels.
TexasRequires commercial websites and apps that offer tools to create artificial sexual material using real people's likenesses to verify users are adults, with civil penalties.
TexasCreates a criminal offense for possessing, promoting or producing obscene visual material that appears to depict a child, including AI-generated or animated images.
TexasExpands child sexual abuse material offenses to cover computer-generated and AI-altered images depicting children, including recognizable real children.
TexasRequires social media platforms to provide a way for users to report explicit deepfake material and to respond to and act on such reports on set timelines.
MichiganCreates criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for creating or distributing AI-generated sexual images that falsely depict an identifiable person without consent.
MississippiRequires digital service providers to register users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors, limit collection of minors' data and mitigate harms to minors, and adds morphed images of children to the child exploitation crime.
United States (federal)The Supreme Court denied NetChoice's application to vacate a Fifth Circuit stay, allowing Mississippi's social media age verification law to be enforced while litigation continues.
West VirginiaExpands the crime of nonconsensual disclosure of intimate images to include fabricated images and defines computer-generated child sexual abuse material as a crime.
IllinoisBars AI systems from providing therapy or making therapeutic decisions in Illinois and limits licensed professionals' use of AI to administrative and supplementary support.
MinnesotaPublic safety omnibus that expanded the definition of child sexual abuse material to include obscene images of individuals indistinguishable from actual minors created with generative artificial intelligence.
United KingdomImposes duties on user-to-user and search services to tackle illegal content and protect children, enforced by Ofcom through codes of practice, age assurance requirements and penalties.
NevadaProhibits AI systems from being represented as or used to provide professional mental and behavioral health care, bars certain AI uses in public schools, and directs the Department of Education to adopt an AI policy.
GeorgiaRequires social media platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for users under 16, and requires schools to block social media on school networks.
North CarolinaEducation omnibus that promotes internet safety, requires social media literacy instruction in schools and requires limits on student use of wireless devices during instructional time.
LouisianaRequires app stores to verify users ages and obtain parental consent for minors, and sets related duties for app developers.
United States (federal)Would bar social media platforms from allowing children under 13 to hold accounts and limit algorithmic feeds for users under 17.
TexasRequires commercial websites where more than one third of content is sexual material harmful to minors to verify that users are adults.
United States (federal)The Supreme Court upheld Texas's age verification requirement for websites with sexually explicit material, holding that it survives intermediate scrutiny.
United States (federal)A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 106.
ConnecticutOmnibus act that amends the Connecticut Data Privacy Act and adds rules for social media platforms, online services, gaming and consumer contracts.
OregonAmends the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act to bar controllers from selling precise geolocation data and the personal data of consumers under 16.
FloridaWould have required social media platforms to decrypt end-to-end encrypted messages under a warrant and let parents view all messages on a minor's account.
VermontRequires online services likely to be accessed by minors to meet a minimum duty of care, set high-privacy defaults for minors and avoid design features that drive compulsive use.
New HampshireWould have criminalized and created a private right of action for using responsive generative AI communication to encourage or solicit certain harmful acts by a child.
FloridaRequires covered online platforms to set up a process to remove altered sexual depictions, including deepfakes, within 48 hours of a valid request from the depicted person.
LouisianaEstablishes a duty of care for online platforms that enter into contracts with minors.
United States (federal)A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
AustraliaAmends the Privacy Act 1988 to require a Children's Online Privacy Code, add transparency duties for automated decisions, create a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy and a criminal offence for doxxing.
NevadaWould have restricted processing of children's personal data by online services and required social media platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
Legislationsby Glyph