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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session |
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HB 2991: social media; online content; minors
S/E: application distributor; minor
Sponsor: Representative Carbone, LD 25
Committee on Commerce
Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment HB 2991
Overview
Provides requirements for application distribution providers relating to identifying the age of an account holder.
History
A person commits unlawful age misrepresentation if the person is at least 18 years of age, and knowing or having reason to know that the recipient of a communication is a minor, uses an electronic communication device to knowingly misrepresent the person's age for the purpose of committing any sexual offense involving the recipient (A.R.S. § 13-3561).
Provisions
1. Requires an application distribution provider to:
a. request the age of an individual who is creating an account;
b. provide a developer of a covered application with the technical ability to identify an age signal, if the age signal is agreed to be shareable;
c. provide the ability to prevent an account holder who is a minor from acquiring or using the developer's covered application from the application distributor provider;
d. provide the capability to a developer to disclose the developer's relevant parental controls for a covered application through a centralized product page or a user interface that provides relevant information about the covered application; and
e. comply with the prescribed obligations for its own covered applications for which the application distribution provider is also the developer. (Sec. 1)
2. Authorizes an application distribution provider to:
a. use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the age category of an account holder; and
b. provide account holders with a mechanism to obtain the account holder's age category and the ability to request an update if believed the age category is incorrect. (Sec. 1)
3. Prohibits an application distribution provider from using certain collected data to give the application distribution provider preference relative to the third-party covered applications or to otherwise use the data in an anticompetitive manner. (Sec. 1)
4. Exempts an application distribution provider, from specified liabilities, that operates in good faith to provide an account holder's age signal or makes a good faith effort to comply with the outlined provider requirements. (Sec. 1)
5. Exempts a developer of a covered application from liability for an erroneous age signal provided by an applications distribution provider if the develop meets certain stipulations. (Sec. 1)
6. Declares the developer of a covered application is solely liable to correctly identify whether the developer of a covered application's application is a covered application, as agreed on between the developer and a provider. (Sec. 1)
7. Authorizes the Attorney General to enforce and impose civil penalties for violations. (Sec. 1)
8. Specifies the application distribution provider requirements do not:
a. create a private right of action; or
b. require a developer to determine whether an account holder is an adult or a minor if the developer and an application distribution provider are controlled by the same entity. (Sec. 1)
9. Defines pertinent terms. (Sec. 1)
10. Cites this act as the Mobile Ecosystem Responsibility Act. (Sec. 2)
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