Advertising and information sharing protections for children

(a) Prohibition on advertisement to children It shall be unlawful for any provider of an AI chatbot to engage in advertising to child users, including through product placement in conversations or interactions with the child user. (b) Prohibition on child targeted advertising It shall be unlawful for any provider of an AI chatbot to engage in child targeted advertising, including through product placement in conversations or interactions with the child user. (c) Prohibition on sale, sharing, or use of children’s personal information (1) In general Subject to paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for a provider of an AI chatbot to sell or share the personal information of a child unless the provider has obtained verifiable parental consent prior to such sale, sharing, or use. (2) Exception The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the disclosure of a child’s personal information by a provider of an AI chatbot if such disclosure is necessary— (A) to respond to judicial process; or (B) to the extent permitted under law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or in furtherance of an investigation. (d) Prohibition on conditioning a child’s use It shall be unlawful for a provider of an AI chatbot to condition a child’s use of the AI chatbot on verifiable parental consent for the sale, sharing, or use of the personal information of a child or the child’s disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to use the AI chatbot. (e) Prohibition on deceptive design patterns It shall be unlawful for a provider of an AI chatbot to knowingly or negligently design, implement, or deploy any user interface design, feature, or technique that misleads, impairs, or interferes with a reasonable child’s or reasonable parent’s autonomy, decision making, or choice, or the ability of a child or parent to locate, understand, enable, or maintain a safety feature, privacy control, or parental setting of the AI chatbot.