Sen. Andy Kim is circulating a draft kids’ online safety bill that would require operating system providers such as Apple and Google to collect users’ ages for use by app developers, three people familiar with the proposal told POLITICO.
The new bill, named the Digital Age Assurance Act of 2026, mirrors an eponymous California law that received widespread support from tech companies including Google, Meta and Snap, according to a POLITICO review of the legislative text.
Kim (D-N.J.) has been searching for a Senate co-sponsor and collecting feedback from online safety groups and has received support from industry groups, according to two of the…
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