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Sec. 5 · S. 4159

One national standard

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(a) In general No State or political subdivision of a State may maintain, enforce, prescribe, or continue in effect any law, rule, regulation, requirement, standard, or other provision having the force and effect of law of the State, or political subdivision of a State, related to requiring large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces for the purposes of child online safety, through which a child or a parent of a child may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on a large social media platform in the same manner as is available to the child. (b) Rule of construction This section may not be construed to— (1) limit the enforcement of any consumer protection law of general applicability of a State or political subdivision of a State; (2) preempt the applicability of State trespass, contract, or tort law; or (3) preempt the applicability of any State law to the extent that the law relates to acts of fraud, unauthorized access to personal information, or notification of unauthorized access to personal information.

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