Parental controls and settings for family accounts

(a) Parental controls and settings Any family account provided by a covered entity to meet the requirements of section 3 or 4 shall permit the parent of a child or teen user, as applicable, to— (1) determine the privacy and account settings for the user account or profile of such child or teen, including the ability to— (A) limit the amount of time the child or teen is able to spend using the artificial intelligence chatbot of the covered entity; (B) disable rewards or incentives, including badges or other visual award symbols, based on frequency, time spent, or the activity of the child or teen using the artificial intelligence chatbot; (C) disable notifications and push alerts; (D) disable any financial transaction made available while using the artificial intelligence chatbot; (E) disable the generation of an output from the artificial intelligence chatbot that is not in response to the input of a user; and (F) enable a requirement that the covered entity display a transparency label and set the intervals at which the transparency label should be displayed; (2) set the number of inputs that, or the period of time during which, an artificial intelligence chatbot may use the personal data of, or such inputs provided by, a child or teen user to generate outputs before such data and such inputs must be deleted from any memory used by the artificial intelligence chatbot to generate outputs; (3) access— (A) a full record of the conversations and activity of the child or teen with such artificial intelligence chatbot; and (B) features that allow the parent to monitor, analyze, and understand, at scale, the record of such conversations and activity; and (4) receive customized notifications or other alerts when the child or teen attempts to bypass, disable, or violate any parental control or setting described in paragraph (1). (b) Default safeguards and parental control options (1) Default safeguards Each covered entity shall ensure that the default setting of any parental control or setting described in subsection (a) for a family account is the option, or pre-set option (for purposes of paragraph (2)), that provides the most protective level of control with respect to the use of the artificial intelligence chatbot by a child or teen user. (2) Pre-set options for parents Each covered entity shall provide a parent of a child or teen user with the option to select between several pre-set tiered options for governing the settings described in subsection (a)(2) that balance the tradeoffs between the protectiveness to the child or teen user and the effectiveness of the artificial intelligence chatbot. (c) Disclosure and transparency (1) In general Each covered entity shall ensure that the default setting of any parental control or setting described in subsection (a) within a family account is accompanied by a clear and conspicuous disclosure that defines the scope of the setting in a manner that is understandable by an ordinary consumer. (2) Provision of information Prior to the creation of a family account, a covered entity shall provide to the parent of a child or teen clear and conspicuous information, which may include a link to a web page of the covered entity, regarding— (A) the policies and practices of the covered entity with respect to each parental control or setting described in subsection (a), including an easy-to-understand explanation of the options described in such subsection, the pre-set options described in subsection (b)(2), and the effect of each option or pre-set option; and (B) how to access and manage the family account for the child or teen user, including an easy-to-understand explanation of how to view, change, and determine each parental control or setting described in subsection (a). (d) Report A covered entity shall provide an easily accessible means for a child or teen user or the parent of such child or teen user to— (1) report violations of the parental controls or settings specified in subsection (a); and (2) contact the covered entity with respect to any matter related to child or teen use of the artificial intelligence chatbot of the covered entity.