Kids Internet Safety Partnership Act

The Kids Internet Safety Partnership Act aims to establish a new collaborative body within the Department of Commerce called the Kids Internet Safety Partnership. This group would be led by a director and would include representatives from federal agencies, child safety experts, privacy scholars, and industry leaders. Its primary mission would be to research the specific risks and benefits children face when using websites and mobile applications, moving away from a patchwork of state-level rules toward a unified national framework.

If enacted, the partnership would be required to publish a publicly available playbook of best practices for online platforms. These guidelines would cover critical areas such as age verification methods, parental control tools, default privacy settings, and the management of personalized recommendation algorithms. The bill also proposes that the partnership release regular reports measuring how effectively tech companies are adopting these safety tools, providing parents and policymakers with evidence-based data on digital protections for minors.