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Committee hears competing views on bill to restrict online ‘addictive feeds’ and strengthen minors’ privacy
Summary
Substitute House Bill 18-34 would impose age-estimation, limit collection and use of minors’ personal and location data, restrict nighttime/school-hour notifications and ban ‘addictive feeds’ targeted to minors; supporters cited child mental-health benefits, opponents raised First Amendment and implementation concerns.
Megan Mulvihill, staff to the Consumer Protection and Business Committee, told the committee Substitute House Bill 18-34 would establish requirements for online services, products or features likely to be accessed by minors, including age estimation or applying minor-level privacy protections to all users.
Mulvihill said the bill would restrict collection, sale, sharing and retention of minors’ personal information and precise location data, bar profiling and “dark patterns,” require high-default privacy settings for minors, and require an obvious sign when minors are being tracked. The bill would also limit notifications to minors during school hours and nighttime, and it would prohibit operators…
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