Youth AI Privacy Act
Sponsored By: Senator Edward Markey
Introduced
Summary
Protects minors by limiting how AI chatbots collect and use children’s personal data and by forcing safer, less addictive designs. This bill would require clear, age‑appropriate disclosures, ban targeted advertising and profiling of minors, and bar features that encourage compulsive use.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
New chatbot definitions and age rules
If enacted, the bill would define key AI chatbot terms, including "AI chatbot", "covered algorithm", and "minor" (under 18). It would treat some widely shared public content as not personal data. It would exclude sensitive items like biometric, genetic, and intimate images from that exception. The FTC would have 180 days to issue guidance on when a deployer fairly knows a user is a minor. That guidance would be informational and not by itself a basis for enforcement. The bill would also bar requiring companies to collect extra age data or to add age gates or verification tools.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Edward Markey
MA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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