Sammy’s Law of 2023 - H.R.5778

Summary

The bill would create a parental right to know about dangerous or concerning interactions children under the age of 17 may have online. It would require large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces, through which a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on the large social media platform on the same terms as such child.

Large social media platform providers would also be required to establish and implement reasonable policies, practices, and procedures regarding the secure transfer of user data from the large social media platform to a third-party safety software provider in order to mitigate any risks related to user data, among other things. Third-party safety software providers would be required to register with the FTC as a condition of accessing an application programming interface and other information defined in the bill. Violations of this bill would be enforced as an “unfair or deceptive act or practice” by the FTC.