HB 25-1287

House Bill 25-1287, also known as "Social Media Tools for Minor Users & Parents," is a Colorado law that requires social media companies to implement measures to protect young users. It mandates age verification systems and provides tools for both minors and their parents to control privacy settings on social media platforms. The bill aims to enhance the safety of minor users by limiting how platforms can influence or manipulate them into sharing personal information or disabling security features. Since it has been signed, this law is now in effect, meaning social media companies must comply with these new requirements to protect Colorado's young internet users.

Official Summary

The bill establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect Colorado minor users. Specifically, the bill: Relocates, with amendments, certain language requiring a social media platform to include a function that provides minor users information about their engagement in social media, which language was enacted in 2024 by House Bill 24-1136; Requires a social media company to implement an age assurance system to determine whether a current or prospective Colorado user on the social media company's social media platform is a minor; Requires a social media company to provide tools and settings for a minor user to control their own experience using a social media platform; Requires a social media company to provide tools and settings for parents to support a minor user of a social media platform; Specifies minimum capabilities for the tools and settings; Requires a social media company to take additional specific measures to maximize the privacy and security of minor users; Prohibits a social media platform from leading or encouraging a minor or parent to provide personal information, provide consent, disable safeguards or parental tools, or forgo privacy or security protections using a mechanism or interface that is designed to substantially subvert or impair, or that is manipulated with the effect of substantially subverting or impairing, user autonomy, decision-making, or choice; Deems the use of a design, algorithm, or feature to increase, sustain, or extend a minor user's engagement with, or use of, a social media platform to be processing that presents a heightened risk of harm to minors, as defined in existing law, and therefore subject to certain data analysis requirements; and Authorizes the attorney general to adopt rules to implement the bill.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)