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South Carolina · Through 2026 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 39-80-30: Required tools and options; default safeguards for minors.

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  1. Title 39 - TRADE AND COMMERCE
  2. CHAPTER 80 Age-Appropriate Code Design

(A) A covered online service must provide a user or visitor to the service with easily accessible and easy-to-use tools to:

(1) disable design features including, but not limited to, all covered design features, that are not necessary to provide the covered online service by allowing users to opt out of the use of all such design features or any combination of such design features;

(2) limit the amount of time the user spends on the covered online service;

(3) limit, at the level of the user's choosing, the financial value of purchases and transactions on the covered online service if such purchases and transactions have not been disabled;

(4) block, disable, and render nonvisible messaging, requests, reactions, likes, comments, or other contact from account holders that are not already among the minor's existing connected accounts;

(5) restrict the visibility of the minor's account and information posted by the minor to only users with connected accounts;

(6) block, disable, and render nonvisible quantification of engagement including, but not limited to, providing a visible count of how many likes, comments, clicks, views, or reactions regarding any item generated by the user;

(7) disable search engine indexing of a user's account profile such that the account only shows within searches initiated by a user with a connected account;

(8) prohibit any other individual from viewing the user's connections to other users, regardless of the nature of the connection; and

(9) restrict the visibility of the user's location information to only those with whom the user specifically shares such information and provide notice when the minor's precise geolocation information is being tracked or shared.

(B) A covered online service must provide to a user the option to opt out of personalized recommendation systems, except for optimizations based on the user's expressed preferences. A covered online service must establish this option as a default setting for any individual the covered online service knows to be a minor.

(C) A covered online service must establish, implement, and maintain as default settings for any individual the covered online service knows to be a minor the safeguards described in subsection (A).

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