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House advances social media rules for minors after floor fights over age, privacy and threat reporting
Summary
Lawmakers on the Minnesota House floor amended and debated House File 4138, which would require transparency about age-estimation processes, default privacy protections for child accounts and reporting of articulable threats to state public-safety partners. An amendment to raise the age to 18 failed; other amendments tightening threat reporting and requiring reporting to the state fusion center were adopted after close roll calls.
The Minnesota House spent an extended floor period amending and debating House File 4138, a bill that would set requirements for social-media platforms with respect to accounts for minors, including transparency around age-estimation, default privacy settings and limits on use or sale of data collected for age determination.
Representative Scott (Anoka), the bill sponsor on the floor, explained amendment A10, which adds transparency requirements about platforms’ age-estimation processes, sets a revenue threshold for covered platforms at $1,000,000,000 in total revenue and establishes a 10,000-account threshold for Minnesota-based account holders. He said the amendment also makes privacy settings the default for child accounts.
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