N.Y. General Business Law § 1522: Display requirements and restrictions

* § 1522. Display requirements and restrictions. 1. For each calendar

day in which a covered user accesses an addictive feature platform

providing an addictive feature to the covered user, the covered operator

shall display the warning label described in section fifteen hundred

twenty-one of this article to the covered user when such user initially

accesses the platform and an addictive feature is provided. The warning

label shall be displayed clearly, conspicuously and continuously for at

least ten seconds, without providing the ability to bypass or click

through the warning. Such warning label shall be displayed in a manner

that occupies at least twenty-five percent of the screen or window that

the covered user is using to access the addictive feature platform.

2. For each calendar day in which a covered user uses an addictive

feature platform that provides an addictive feature to the covered user,

the covered operator shall display the warning label described in

section fifteen hundred twenty-one of this article to the covered user

after three hours of cumulative active use and thereafter at least once

per hour of cumulative active use. The warning label shall be displayed

clearly, conspicuously and continuously for a duration of at least

thirty seconds, without providing the ability to bypass or click through

the warning, in a manner that occupies at least seventy-five percent of

the screen the covered user is using to access the addictive feature

platform.

3. A covered operator shall be prohibited from:

(a) Including a warning label exclusively in the terms of service of

an addictive feature platform;

(b) Obscuring the visibility or prominence of a warning label; and

(c) Deploying any other design feature or mechanism which

intentionally serves to inhibit or subvert the purpose of this article.

* NB Effective January 1, 2027