I will advance bipartisan legislation requiring operating system developers to verify new users' ages at the device level and give parents tools to choose how their children use devices.

Josh Gottheimer · New Jersey · Democratic

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Commitment kind: outcome. Promised action: Advance the Parents Decide Act.. Promised outcome: Operating system developers verify new users' ages and provide parents tools to manage children's device use.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. Federal House child online safety and technology legislation introduced by Gottheimer during his current term.

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Introduced the bipartisan Parents Decide Act with Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21). It requires operating system developers to verify new users’ ages at the device level and give parents the tools to choose how their children use their devices.

Gottheimer highlighted the Parents Decide Act to require device-level age verification and parental controls.

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