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Age Appropriate Design Code
Kids and teens deserve online platforms designed for them.
Every day children are using a digital world that is designed by and for adults, where they are nudged to give up their privacy, offered harmful material, and exposed to risky contacts and behaviors. While we test cribs and car seats and put nutrition labels on foods, the internet has never had product safety testing for children and teens. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Bold landmark legislation in the Age Appropriate Design Code, otherwise known as the “Kids Code,” has already gone into effect in the UK and produced meaningful changes from Big Tech companies to protect kids and teens online by design and by default. The legislation has already been signed into law in California and Maryland, unanimously passed in Vermont, and introduced in many states including Minnesota.
What is the Minnesota Kids Code?
The Minnesota Kids Code was introduced in the 2023 legislative session and passed the Minnesota State House of Representatives in the Commerce Budget Bill with overwhelming bipartisan support.
The Kids Code would require privacy by design and default, and it would require online products and services reasonably likely to be accessed by children and teens under 18 to be age appropriate and designed in kids’ best interests. While Big Tech attempts to fight the AADC with infinite resources and lawsuits, legislators and civil society organizations are continuing to prioritize kids’ safety and wellbeing online.
Parents, youth, medical professionals, partner organizations, join us in fighting for a better online future.
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Newspaper Ad to Minnesota State Legislators
On April 19, 2023, the Minnesota Kids Code coalition took out a full-page ad in the Star Tribune behalf of 100+ parents, educators, youth activists, and technologists urging the Minnesota State Legislature to pass the Minnesota Age Appropriate Design Code.
Newspaper Ad to TechNet Member Companies
On May 22, 2023, the Minnesota Kids Code coalition took out a full-page ad in the Star Tribune to respond to Big Tech’s lobbying efforts to prevent the passage of the Minnesota Age Appropriate Design Code in the 2023 legislative session of the Minnesota State Legislature.