{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-5-920","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 39-5-920","heading":"Determining estimated age of social media account holder; update.","body":"(A) Within fourteen days of the first trigger date, the covered social media platform must use reasonable means and reasonable efforts, taking into consideration available technology and the data in the possession of the covered social media platform, to estimate the age of the account holder. If the covered social media platform is able to conclude with eighty percent confidence that the account holder is over fifteen years of age, then the covered social media platform may treat the account holder to be other than a child for purposes of this article. Otherwise, the covered social media platform must treat the account holder as a child for purposes of this article.\n(B) Within fourteen days of the second trigger date, the covered social media platform must use reasonable means and reasonable efforts to revise its estimate of the age of the account holder. If the covered social media platform is able to conclude with ninety percent confidence that the account holder is over fifteen years of age, then the covered social media platform may treat the account holder to be other than a child for purposes of this act. Otherwise, the covered social media platform must treat the account holder as a child for purposes of this act.\n(C) A covered social media platform shall update its estimate of the age of each account holder after every additional one hundred hours spent by the account holder on the covered social media platform, or as often as the covered social media platform applies any form of data analytics or artificial intelligence to update its estimate of any other demographic characteristic of the account holder for any reason, whichever period is shorter.\n(D) This section does not create any duty on the part of a covered social media platform to request, collect, or retain any information from or about any account holder. Rather, the age estimate required by this section must be derived based on information collected and retained by the covered social media platform in the ordinary course of operation of the covered social media platform.\n(E) A covered social media platform has no obligation under this article to estimate the age of an account holder who has had an account with the covered social media platform continuously for at least seven years as of the effective date of this act or to take any action with respect to such account.","path":["Title 39 - TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 5 Unfair Trade Practices","ARTICLE 9 Stop Harm from Addictive Social Media"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t39c005.php","current_through":"2026 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-25T03:49:25Z","sha256":"f7dd74921063374ab4fefa8789c12e01d1fc87e72bd8ac49f7e8f3803cfba5e8","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-5-910","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-5-930"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}