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Mississippi
HB 1224, Mississippi Keeping Kids Safe Online Act
Miss. Code Ann. sections 11-79-1 to 11-79-7
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Age threshold
- 18
- Covered services
- Interactive computer services accessible to minors
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- User location
- Obligation class
- Disclosure, Design code
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to interactive computer services accessible to minors.
- Do not knowingly make false or misleading statements or representations to a minor, or to a minor's parent or guardian, about your service, such as falsely denying that it is addictive or safe to minors or failing to disclose or warn of its harmful effects.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
Penalties
Civil penalties up to 10,000 dollars per violation, injunctions, attorney fees, and a private right of action for repeated knowing violations
Penalty structure
Civil penalty the Attorney General may seek for a knowing and willful violation of the Act's prohibitions, brought where in the public interest; the amount for each violation is set within this cap using statutory factors including the seriousness of the violation, prior violations, deterrence, and the violator's economic circumstances.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 10,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Mississippi Attorney General
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- When is a service "used or reasonably likely to be used by minors" under Section 11-79-3(f), Mississippi Code, for a general-audience service that does not direct itself to minors?
- Does a feature that "will encourage or increase the frequency, time spent, or activity of minors" under Section 11-79-3(f) cover any feature that could have that effect, or only one shown to have it?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 11-79-5 bars a covered interactive computer service provider from false or misleading statements to minors and their parents about the service; the act contains no record, audit, age-check or retention clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Prohibits a covered interactive computer service from knowingly making false or misleading statements or representations to a minor, or to a minor's parent or guardian, about the service, such as falsely denying that it is addictive or safe to minors or failing to disclose or warn of its harmful effects. A service with design features that make it addictive to minors is treated as a defective product for state product liability purposes.
A minor's parent or guardian may bring a private action where a knowing and willful violation proximately causes the minor's repeated exposure to material harmful to minors. Signed .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app operates a social platform or serves under-18s.
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