KIDS Act (minor safeguards across platforms, games, and chatbots)
Current understanding
The KIDS Act is an introduced federal bill that would layer minor-safety duties across covered online platforms, social media services, video games, and AI chatbots. Requirements would include age-gated access to harmful sexual material, default off-switches for compulsive-use and messaging features, parental controls over privacy settings and in-app purchases, and AI-identity plus suicide-hotline disclosures on chatbots. Enforcement would run through the FTC and state attorneys general; status is introduced.
Evidence log
- 2026-04-20 — Parents Over Platforms Act: cross-connection with parents-over-platforms-act: Overlapping scope on minor safeguards across platforms; worth tracking whether the two bills converge, compete, or are packaged together. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-05-11 — GUARD Act: cross-connection with guard-act: Parallel efforts to impose federal minor-safeguard duties on chatbot and platform operators. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-13 — KIDS Act: cross-connection with companion-ai-chatbots-minors-protection-s5154: Both impose minor-safety duties on AI chatbots, including identity and crisis-resource disclosures. (novelty: 3)