325 ILCS 66/15: Protections for covered minors.

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(a) For all users that the covered operator has determined to be a covered minor, the covered operator shall use the following settings by default:

(1) The covered operator shall not display the existence of the covered minor's account on a covered platform to any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to view the covered minor's account or has expressly and unambiguously chosen to make the covered minor's account's existence public.

(2) The covered operator shall not display media created or posted by the covered minor on a covered platform to any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to view the covered minor's media or has expressly and unambiguously chosen to make the covered minor's media publicly available.

(3) The covered operator shall not permit any known adult user to like, comment on, or otherwise provide feedback on the covered minor's media on a covered platform unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to do so.

(4) The covered operator shall not permit direct messaging on a covered platform between the covered minor and any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously decided to allow direct messaging with a specific known adult user.

(5) The precise geolocation information of the minor shall not be shared with any user unless the minor has expressly and unambiguously chosen to share the covered minor's location with the specific user.

(6) No user may receive or send gifted currency to the minor unless the user is already connected to the covered minor.

(7) The covered operator shall disable search engine indexing of the covered minor's account profile.

(b) A parent of a covered minor or a covered minor determined by a covered operator to be over the age of 16 may override the default privacy settings described in subsection (a). A parent of a covered minor may override the default privacy settings described in subsection (a) for a covered minor under the age of 16. A covered operator shall not provide a covered minor with a single setting that makes all the default privacy settings less protective at once. A covered operator shall not request or prompt a covered minor to make the covered minor's privacy settings less protective unless the change is strictly necessary for the covered minor to access a service or feature that they expressly and unambiguously requested.

(c) For all users that the covered operator has determined to be a covered minor, the covered operator shall provide a mechanism that enables a parent to set a monthly limit on all gifted currency related to the covered minor's account. The covered operator shall establish a mechanism by which a parent of a covered minor may easily view a history of all gifted currency related to the covered minor's account at any time.

(d) It shall be unlawful for a covered operator under this Section to, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., send notifications to a covered minor unless:

(1) the covered operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to send notifications during the time restricted under this subsection; or

(2) the notification contemporaneously notifies the covered user of a direct message received from another user of the covered platform.

(e) It shall be unlawful for a covered operator of an addictive social media platform to provide an addictive feed to a covered minor unless the covered operator of the addictive social media platform has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to a covered minor.

(f) It shall be unlawful for a covered operator of an addictive social media platform to enable the automatic playing of media to a covered minor by default.

(g) A covered operator of an addictive social media platform may choose not to provide services to minors. A covered operator of an addictive social media platform shall not withhold, degrade, lower the quality, or increase the price of any product, service, or feature, other than as necessary for compliance with the provisions of this Act, to a covered user solely because the covered operator of the addictive social media platform is not permitted to provide an addictive feed to the covered user under this Act.

(h) All information collected for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent required under this Section shall not be used for any purpose other than obtaining verifiable parental consent and shall be deleted within a reasonable period after an attempt to obtain verifiable parental consent, except where it is necessary for the compliance with any applicable provisions of State or federal law.

(i) Nothing in this Section shall be construed as requiring a covered operator to give a parent who grants verifiable parental consent any additional or special access to or control over the data or accounts of the parent's child.

(j) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit a covered operator from instituting a privacy setting for covered minors or other users that is more protective than that required by this Section.

(k) Nothing in this Section shall be construed as requiring a covered operator to remove any user-generated content or preventing access to information regarding sex, sexuality, gender, and reproductive health that is not already prohibited by existing law.

(l) Nothing in this Section shall be construed as preventing any actions taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of any media.