United StatesS. 1748, Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
In committee, dated , as of .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- periodic
- Who audits it
- Independent third party
- Where the report goes
- Published
Where it has got to
The text described here is S. 1748 as introduced in the Senate. That print is S. 1748 IS, published .
Locally, this stage is ordered reported with a substitute by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The stage above is recorded at www.congress.gov.
The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ordered the bill reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute on . No reported print has been published, so the text as introduced is the latest public version.
What it requires
- Applies to online platforms, video games, messaging and streaming services likely to be used by minors.
- Meet a duty of care to prevent and mitigate specified harms to minors.
- Turn on default safeguards for known minors.
- Provide parental tools for known minors.
- Provide the transparency reporting the bill mandates.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general (proposed)
Settledness
The question is stated against the text as introduced; the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ordered the bill reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute on .
- As of
- Open questions
- What evidence of use, or of likely use, by a minor (an individual under the age of 17) makes a general audience online platform one that is 'reasonably likely to be used' by a minor under section 101(3)(A)?
What it reaches
Age threshold
17
Covered services
Online platforms, video games, messaging and streaming services likely to be used by minors.
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
User location
Verification methods
Self declaration, Device signal
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Auditor or notified body, Public
Logging duty
The bill orders no log by name. A covered platform with more than 10,000,000 monthly active users in the United States that mainly hosts user-generated content must issue a public report each year based on an independent third-party audit and give the auditor all relevant information, systems and facts, which cannot be done without keeping records. Section 105(f) requires the public reports to protect users' privacy by presenting de-identified, aggregated data. Section 112(c) says the bill does not require age verification.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- S. 1748 Section 105(a) and (e)
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Would impose a duty of care on covered online platforms to prevent and mitigate specified harms to minors, require default safeguards and parental tools for known minors, and mandate transparency reporting. An earlier version passed the Senate 91-3 in July 2024 (118th Congress) but died in the House.
Reintroduced by Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal with Senate leadership support; on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ordered it reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. It has also been partially consolidated into the House-passed KIDS Act without its duty of care provision.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app operates a social platform or serves under-18s.
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