Gottheimer Introduces Bill Requiring Age Verification on Operating Systems
Josh Gottheimer and Elise Stefanik introduced a bill requiring operating-system providers to verify users’ ages. Coverage weighs its child-protection aims against concerns about privacy and digital identity.
Lead article · merissahansen.comage Verification Laws: A Trojan Horse for Digital ID? The Rise of State Mandates and the Federal Parents Decide ActHow each side told it
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- thewatchtowers.org (cites Lunduke) · New Federal Law to Require Age Verification on All Operating SystemsNO PUBLISHED LEAN
- merissahansen.com · age Verification Laws: A Trojan Horse for Digital ID? The Rise of State Mandates and the Federal Parents Decide ActNO PUBLISHED LEAN
- Free Republic · Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S. (Introducing DoxxOS)NO PUBLISHED LEAN
Who’s in it, and how each side portrayed them
Gottheimer and Stefanik were named together by 3 of 3 outlets. Counted by outlet.
Introduced H.R. 8250 with Stefanik, requiring operating-system providers to verify users’ ages.
Co-sponsored H.R. 8250 with Gottheimer, a bill requiring operating-system providers to verify users’ ages.
What Congress actually did
FACTS FROM THE HOUSE RECORD AND CONGRESS.GOV, NOT FROM COVERAGE
Parents Decide Act
Families, device makers and app developers may need ways to distinguish adult and child users online. The Parents Decide Act would require operating systems to collect users' birth dates and verify the ages of users under 18 through a parent or guardian. It would also let app developers access age-check information and direct the FTC to set privacy, security and parental-control rules.
- IntroducedTHIS STORYAPR 13 · HOUSE
- Passed House
- Senate passage
- Signed into law
When each side picked it up
When each side picked it up. unrated: 4 articles, first wed 3:11 pm.
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