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Senate passes Children—s Device Protection Act requiring default filters on new phones
Summary
The Utah Senate concurred with House technical changes and passed the 4th substitute to Senate Bill 104, which requires phones manufactured on or after Jan. 1, 2025, to ship with filters for adult websites enabled by default and allows adults to opt out. Sponsors said the change was designed to be technologically feasible.
The Utah Senate on the floor passed the fourth substitute to Senate Bill 104, the Children—s Device Protection Act, requiring that phones manufactured after Jan. 1, 2025, have default filters blocking adult websites for users identified as minors, with an option for adults to disable the filter.
Senator Weiler, the floor sponsor, said the bill aims to make commercially available safeguards the norm: "This bill ... would require the cell phones to have the…
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