Introduced in 2023 and sponsored by Reps. Bahner and Elkins, the Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code provides safety-by-design and privacy-by-default to kids and teens online. Design It For Us advocates testified and rallied in support of the bill.
The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for All Act, sponsored by Senator Gounardes and Assembly Member Bores, would require social media platforms with algorithmic feeds to provide all users with the ability to turn off their user-personalization algorithm. It would also require platforms to allow users to turn off notifications and autoplay, as well as to set screen time limits if the user so chooses, and prohibit platforms from hiding behind “dark patterns.”
Unanimously passed by the California State Legislature and signed into law in September 2022, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) is a landmark bipartisan law to protect kids online by design and by default.
Unanimously passed in 2023 and signed into law in May 2023, the bipartisan Maryland Kids Code provides safety-by-design and privacy-by-default to kids and teens online.