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House approves age-appropriate design code for online services after heated debate
Summary
The House voted 133–9 to propose amendments to S.69, an "age-appropriate design code" that sets privacy-forward defaults and design limits for online services likely to be used by minors; supporters said it protects children, opponents warned of constitutional and economic risks.
The House on third reading voted to propose to the Senate amendments recommended by the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to S.69, an "age-appropriate design code" that seeks to limit design features and data practices that lawmakers and advocates say harm children.
The bill reporter, the member from Milton (Representative; name not specified), opened debate by saying the bill "does not ban content. It does not censor speech. It does not criminalize expression. What it does do is place reasonable guardrails around how digital products and services interact with children." The reporter said the bill addresses features such as infinite scroll, late-night push notifications and complex privacy settings and instructs covered businesses to set children's accounts to the most private settings by default.
Key provisions: The bill defines a…
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