Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is proposing a new law that would require certain online services to obtain permission from parents before allowing kids to use their platforms, insisting that such measures are necessary to protect children from harmful content.
The “Social Media Parental Notification Act” requires online companies to create a method to determine whether the user is a child less than 16 years of age, obtain verifiable consent for such users from their parent or legal guardian, and send a written confirmation of the consent to the parent/guardian.
