Legislationsby Glyph
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 3696
DEFIANCE Act of 2024
Would create a federal civil remedy for people depicted in sexually explicit deepfakes made or shared without consent.
Online safety and kids
300 on file · 187 became law · 41 still moving · 16 moved in 30 days
United States (federal)
United NationsUnited NationsA/HRC/RES/56/6
Safety of the child in the digital environment
Human Rights Council resolution on protecting children from harm in the digital environment while respecting their rights online.
MassachusettsMassachusettsH 4744
An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation (Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2024)
Criminalizes sharing explicit images without consent, including AI-generated or digitally altered deepfake images, and addresses coercive control and youth sexting.
New YorkNew YorkS 7695-B / A 8149-A
New York Child Data Protection Act
Bars online operators from collecting, using or selling personal data of users under 18 unless strictly necessary or with informed consent.
LouisianaLouisianaHB 577
Ban on targeted advertising to minors on social media (Act 656 of 2024)
Prohibits social media companies from collecting minors' data to use for targeted advertising.
DelawareDelawareHB 265
Age Verification for Material Harmful to Minors
Would have required commercial websites providing pornography or material harmful to minors to verify users' ages, with civil liability and penalties.
VermontVermontH.121
Vermont Data Privacy Act and age-appropriate design code (2024)
Would have created a comprehensive consumer privacy law with a private right of action and a kids age-appropriate design code; the Governor vetoed it and the Senate sustained the veto.
ColoradoColoradoSB 24-041
Privacy Protections for Children's Online Data
Amends the Colorado Privacy Act to add heightened duties for online services that process the personal data of minors, including limits on targeted advertising, data sales and retention.
TennesseeTennesseeHB 1614 / SB 1792
Protect Tennessee Minors Act
Requires websites that publish a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification before granting access.
FranceFranceLoi n. 2024-449 du 21 mai 2024
SREN Law (securing and regulating the digital space)
French law to secure and regulate the digital space that strengthens Arcom's powers to enforce age verification on pornographic sites, with penalties up to 4 percent of worldwide revenue, and creates an offence of sharing non-consensual algorithmically generated sexual content.
South CarolinaSouth CarolinaH 3424
Child Online Safety Act (Act 198 of 2024)
Requires websites that publish a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to verify users' ages.
Child Online Safety and Empowerment Policy
Continental policy setting principles on children's safety, privacy and participation online, guiding member states in building national child online protection and empowerment programmes.
TennesseeTennesseeHB 1891 / SB 2097
Protecting Children from Social Media Act
Requires social media companies to verify the age of account holders and obtain parental consent for minors to open accounts, and gives parents supervision tools.
MarylandMarylandHB 603
Maryland Kids Code
Requires online products reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete data protection impact assessments, provide privacy protections and avoid certain data collection and sharing practices; cross-filed with SB 571.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 474
REPORT Act
Expands online service providers' duties to report child sexual exploitation to NCMEC and lengthens evidence preservation periods.
FloridaFloridaSB 1680
Advanced Technology (Government Technology Modernization Council; generated child pornography)
Creates the Government Technology Modernization Council to advise on AI and emerging technology and makes creating or possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material a crime.
OklahomaOklahomaSB 1959
Age verification for online adult material
Requires commercial websites that publish a substantial amount of material harmful to minors to verify that users are adults, with civil liability for violations.
KansasKansasSB 394
Age verification for websites with material harmful to minors
Requires websites containing material harmful to minors to use age-verification technology before granting access.
AlabamaAlabamaHB 164
Online Distribution of Material Harmful to Minors; Age Verification
Requires commercial websites with a substantial share of material harmful to minors to use age verification and display warnings.
AlabamaAlabamaHB 168
Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenses
Revises child sexual abuse material offenses, including raising the age of a depicted child, and authorizes punitive damages for victims.
IowaIowaHF 2240
Harassment by altered intimate images
Makes it harassment to disseminate a nude or sexual visual depiction that has been altered to falsely depict another person.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 2257
Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (2023-2024)
Would have required online businesses likely to be accessed by children to assess and mitigate risks to minors and set high-privacy defaults, with attorney general enforcement.
IowaIowaSF 2243
Sexual exploitation of a minor by altered visual depictions
Makes it sexual exploitation of a minor to create, adapt or modify a visual depiction so an identifiable minor appears to engage in a prohibited sexual act, covering AI-altered images.
KentuckyKentuckyHB 207
Computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Extends child sexual abuse material crimes to computer-generated images of minors, including AI-generated images, without requiring proof of the depicted minor's identity or age.
IdahoIdahoH 465
Crimes Against Children (visual representations of child sexual abuse)
Creates the crime of producing or possessing visual representations of child sexual abuse, including AI-generated images, and revises the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
IdahoIdahoH 498
Liability for Publishers and Distributors of Material Harmful to Minors on the Internet
Requires commercial websites with a substantial share of material harmful to minors to verify users' ages and creates civil liability for failures.
IndianaIndianaSB 17
Age verification for material harmful to minors
Requires adult-oriented websites that display material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification, with private causes of action for parents and others.
UtahUtahHB 464
Social Media Amendments
Creates a private right of action against social media companies for mental health harms to minors caused by excessive use of algorithmically curated platforms.
South DakotaSouth DakotaSB 79
Computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Revises South Dakota's child pornography law on possession, manufacture and distribution, including coverage of computer-generated images of minors.
North CarolinaNorth CarolinaHB 8
Various Statutory Changes, including the Pornography Age Verification Enforcement (PAVE) Act
Omnibus education bill that includes the PAVE Act, requiring commercial websites that publish material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification.
United NationsUnited NationsA/RES/78/213
Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of digital technologies
Affirms that human rights must be protected online and offline and calls for an open, safe, secure and inclusive digital technology environment, including human rights safeguards for artificial intelligence.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 1418
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
Would extend children's online privacy protections to teens under 17, ban targeted advertising to minors and tighten the COPPA knowledge standard.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 1409
Kids Online Safety Act
Would set a duty of care for covered online platforms to prevent specified harms to minors and require safeguards, parental tools and independent audits.
ArkansasArkansasSB 396
Social Media Safety Act
Requires large social media companies to verify users' ages through a third party and obtain parental consent for users under 18.
ChinaChinaCAC Order No. 15
Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services
Sets rules for providers offering generative AI services to the public in China, covering training data legality, content controls, labeling, user protection, security assessments and algorithm filing.
LouisianaLouisianaSB 162
Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act (Act 456 of 2023)
Requires social media platforms to verify ages and obtain parental consent before minors under 16 can open accounts, and limits data collection and messaging for minors.
ConnecticutConnecticutSB 3
An Act Concerning Online Privacy, Data and Safety Protections
Adds consumer health data protections to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act and creates duties for online services that offer products or features to minors.
FloridaFloridaSB 262
Florida Digital Bill of Rights (Technology Transparency)
Creates consumer data privacy rights for large controllers, limits government requests to social media platforms, and restricts how online platforms likely accessed by children use their data.
MontanaMontanaSB 544
Revise internet laws related to material harmful to minors
Requires commercial websites that publish a substantial amount of material harmful to minors to verify users' ages and creates civil liability for failing to do so.
MississippiMississippiSB 2346
Age verification for material harmful to minors
Makes commercial entities that publish material harmful to minors on the internet liable if they do not use reasonable age verification.
ArkansasArkansasSB 66
Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act
Requires reasonable age verification by websites publishing material harmful to minors and creates liability for failing to do so.
ChinaChinaCAC Order No. 12
Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis Internet Information Services
Regulates deep synthesis technologies such as face swapping and voice cloning, requiring providers to verify users, label synthetic content, obtain consent for editing biometric features and conduct security assessments.
LouisianaLouisianaHB 142
Age verification for material harmful to minors (Act 440 of 2022)
Makes commercial publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors liable if they do not use reasonable age verification on their websites.
GhanaCybersecurity Act, 2020
Establishes Ghana's Cyber Security Authority to regulate cybersecurity activities and promote the development of cybersecurity in the country.
New HampshireAge verification for access to pornographic material
Would have required commercial entities to verify users' ages before allowing access to pornographic material.
New HampshireHarmful acts solicited through responsive generative communication
Criminalizes and creates a private right of action for facilitating, encouraging or soliciting certain acts through responsive generative AI communication to a child.
New HampshireParental consent and age verification for digital application platforms
Would have required app platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
VirginiaArtificial Intelligence Chatbots Act
Would have barred operators from offering companion chatbots in Virginia unless the chatbots were incapable of specified harmful behaviors.
New MexicoNew MexicoHB 174
Chatbot Safety Act
Would have enacted the Chatbot Safety Act to regulate AI chatbots.
New MexicoNew MexicoHB 22
Distribution of sensitive and deepfake images
Would have addressed the distribution of sensitive images and deepfake images of people without consent.