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Ohio Judiciary Committee Hears Contentious Testimony on HB 302, a Statewide Age-assurance Plan for Apps
Summary
Proponents including Google and developer groups told the House Judiciary Committee HB 302 would give app stores an 'age signal' to protect minors and reduce data sharing; opponents and some members warned the bill may grant liability protections and raise constitutional and enforcement questions.
A divided House Judiciary Committee heard several hours of testimony on House Bill 302 on the use of age signals to protect children online, with witnesses offering sharply different accounts of how the proposal would work and whom it would affect.
Proponents, including Kate Charlotte, a Google public-policy director, said the bill is a targeted, privacy-preserving approach that would let app stores provide a simple indicator — a signal that a user is a minor — without transmitting a person’s precise age or identity. ‘‘HB 302 ... enables app stores to provide signal to relevant apps that a user is a minor without sharing any of their specific age or identity information,’’ Charlotte said, adding the bill would ban personalized advertising to minors and give parents centralized controls.
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