REFERENCE TITLE: social media protections; minors

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

HB 2858

 

Introduced by

Representative Blattman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 18, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding chapter 7; relating to online media platforms.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 18, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding chapter 7, to read:

CHAPTER 7

ONLINE PROVIDER REQUIREMENTS FOR MINORS

ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

START_STATUTE18-701. Online service, product or feature providers; minors; social media platforms; definitions

A. Each business in this state that provides an online service, product or feature that is likely to be accessed by a minor must do all of the following:

1. Establish default settings for the online service, product or feature that provide the maximum degree of privacy protections to each user of the online service, product or feature.

2. Allow each minor who uses an online service, product or feature to opt out of the collection and use of the minor's personal information.

3. Prohibit the personal information of a minor who uses an online service, product or feature from being used by any person or entity to target advertising to the minor.

4. Accept a fiduciary duty on each online platform that collects a minor's personal information that prioritizes the minor's interests over those of the online platform.

5. Develop content filters for users to limit cyberbullying on the provider's social media platform.

B. Each business in this state that provides or allows access to a social media platform must do both of the following:

1. Use protections that prohibit any user on the platform who is at least eighteen years of age from sending a message in the platform to a minor who is under eighteen years of age.

2. Prohibit a minor who is under sixteen years of age from using the social media platform without first receiving an approval to use the social media platform from the minor's parent or guardian.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. "De-identified data" means data that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, an identified or identifiable individual or a device linked to the individual, if the controller that possesses the data has done all of the following:

(a) taken reasonable measures to ensure that the data cannot be associated with an individual.

(b) publicly committed to process the data only in a de-identified fashion and does not attempt to re-identify the data.

(c) contractually obligated any recipients of the data to satisfy the criteria set forth in subdivisions (a) and (b) of this paragraph.

2. "personal information":

(a) means Any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual.

(b) Does not include de-identified data or publicly available information.

3. "social media platform":

(a) means a public or semipublic Internet-based service or application that meets all of the following:

(i) is used by a consumer in this state.

(ii) is primarily intended to connect and allow users to socially interact within that service or application.

(iii) enables a user to construct a public or semipublic profile to sign into and use that service or application, populate a public list of other users with whom the user shares a social connection within that service or application and create or post content that is viewable by other users, including on message boards, in chat rooms or through a landing page or main feed.

(iv) presents the user with content generated by other users.

(b) Does not include a public or semipublic Internet-based service or application that meets all of the following:

(i) Exclusively provides email or direct messaging services.

(ii) primarily consists of news, sports, entertainment, interactive video games, electronic commerce or content that is preselected by the provider or for which any chat, comments or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to or dependent on the provision of such content.

(iii) is used by and under the direction of an educational entity, including a learning management system or a student engagement program. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Short title

This act shall be known and cited as the "Protecting Children on Social Media Act".