The Utah legislation was handed on the identical day TikTok’s CEO appeared earlier than Congress to testify on the protection issues surrounding the app, starting from psychological well being impacts to nationwide safety issues. TikTok is wholly owned by Chinese language firm ByteDance.
Social media corporations are already required to adjust to the federal COPPA legislation that protects youngsters underneath the age of 13. However loopholes have led to advertisers unknowingly accumulating youngsters’s information. California, too, handed the same legislation that will increase the privateness settings for minors and prohibits the gathering of location information of these customers by social media corporations.
“These necessities are pointless and burdensome,” stated Oswald.
The ANA encourages legislators to take a look at extra nuanced requirements that acknowledge the distinction between a 7-year-old and a 17-year-old to guard youthful youngsters with out denying older teenagers entry to ad-based content material and knowledge out there to them on-line.
Different states, together with Arkansas, Connecticut, New Jersey and Texas, are contemplating comparable laws to guard youngsters.
