OCSS · law → signal → enforcement

Every statute, mapped to a signal.

One law's obligation becomes a typed rule a conformant router carries — and proves it acted on.

Browse the registry or read the rule registry on openchildsafety.com.
11567 anchored / 48 provisionalOCSS rule categories
91live from the registrystatutes mapped
7federal · state · internationaljurisdiction groups
0conformance ≠ approvalsafe-harbor claims
OCSS §5.1 · the conformance boundary

Conformance is evidence, not approval.

Before anything below: a mapping on this page is not a compliance determination. OCSS conformance does not confer regulatory approval and is not a COPPA safe harbor. It is something a regulator can weigh, alongside everything else, when they evaluate you — so we state the boundary exactly as the spec does, with no softening and no implied stamp.

Phosra is building toward OCSS Certified— a status earned from the standard and its conformance suite, never issued by us. We don't self-certify, and we don't ship a “Phosra Certified” badge.

Verbatim · OCSS Trust Framework §5.1
“A conformance claim under this specification attests that an implementation satisfies its declared OCSS rule lists; it is not a compliance determination under any statute or regulatory scheme, and it MUST NOT be represented as one.”

Read the full §5.1 at openchildsafety.com

How a law becomes enforcement

From statute to signal to a receipt you can replay.

The registry isn't a reading list. Each statute is decomposed into typed rule categories, those categories drive a conformant decision, and the decision leaves an auditable trail. Three steps, one direction.

1 · the statute

A law says what a platform owes a child

COPPA wants verifiable parental consent. KOSA wants a duty of care. The EU DSA wants minor-protection by design. Each statute is tracked in the registry below with its key provisions, status, and the jurisdictions it binds.

2 · the signal

Each provision maps to an OCSS rule category

A statute's obligations are decomposed into typed rule categories from the 115-category OCSS registry — parental_consent_gate, screen_time_report, commercial_data_ban, ai_chatbot_tier_gate, and the rest. One statute touches many categories; one category serves many statutes.

3 · the enforcement

The router enforces the signal at the surface

An OCSS-conformant decision carries that rule vocabulary across DNS, MDM, routers, and app controls — and writes a replayable receipt with the rule, the input, the output, and the statute citation. The same parental choice means the same thing on every surface.

The registry · 91 statutes

The full registry, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Every statute Phosra tracks, grouped by jurisdiction, monitored weekly. Open a group and follow any law to its full provision mapping, Phosra feature crosswalk, and a compliance-readiness checklist.

US Federal9
CIPA

Requires schools and libraries receiving E-Rate funding to implement internet safety policies and content filters to protect children from harmful online content.

3 categoriesEnacted
COPPA 2.0Guide

Extends COPPA to teens under 17, bans all targeted advertising to minors, and creates an Eraser Button for data deletion. Passed the Senate 91-3 as part of KOSMA in July 2024 (118th Congress) but the House never voted and the bill expired Jan 3, 2025. Reintroduced in the 119th Congress as S.836 (Senate, March 2025, Senators Markey & Cassidy) and H.R.6291 (House, November 2025). Not yet signed into law.

6 categoriesPending
EARN IT Act

Proposes to hold platforms accountable for CSAM by modifying Section 230 protections and establishing best practices for preventing child exploitation.

1 categoryProposed
Federal App Store Accountability Act

Federal version of Utah's ASAA. Mandates app store operators verify each user's age category, obtain verifiable parental consent before a minor downloads an app or makes an in-app purchase, and share an age-category attestation with downstream apps under data-minimization and industry-standard-encryption requirements. Apps relying on the store's signal receive a liability safe harbor. (The statute does not itself mandate zero-knowledge proofs or document deletion — that is an implementation choice.)

6 categoriesPending
FOSTA-SESTA

Amends Section 230 to hold platforms liable for facilitating sex trafficking. Requires platforms to actively monitor for and remove trafficking content involving minors.

2 categoriesEnacted
FTC COPPA RuleGuide

The FTC's COPPA enforcement rule requiring verifiable parental consent for data collection on children under 13. The FTC finalized major amendments in January 2025 (5-0 vote), published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2025, with legal effect June 23, 2025 and a full compliance deadline of April 22, 2026. The 2025 amendments add mandatory information security programs, data retention/deletion policies, enhanced direct notice requirements, expanded personal information definitions (biometrics, government IDs), new consent methods, and separate consent for third-party data sharing.

7 categoriesEnacted
KOSAGuide

Establishes a duty of care for platforms, requiring them to disable addictive features and algorithmic feeds for minors by default.

4 categoriesPending
KOSMA

Combined KOSA + COPPA 2.0 package extending protections to all minors under 17, with mandatory age verification. Passed the Senate 91-3 in July 2024 (118th Congress) but the House never voted and the bill expired on Jan 3, 2025. Must be reintroduced and repassed in the 119th Congress. Component bills KOSA and COPPA 2.0 have been individually reintroduced.

3 categoriesPending
SCREEN Act

Federal device-level + ISP-level age verification for online pornography access. Targets the gap that state-level porn-AV laws (TX HB 1181, LA Act 440) only address platform compliance — SCREEN Act extends the requirement device-side and ISP-side.

3 categoriesPending
US State50
AR Age Verify

Arkansas law requiring age verification for social media platforms and prohibiting minors under 18 from creating accounts without parental consent.

3 categoriesInjunction
CA AB 1043

Requires operating systems and app stores to collect parent-declared age information at account setup and pass an age-category signal to downstream apps. Moves the age-assurance burden from individual apps to the OS/store tier so per-app re-verification becomes unnecessary.

3 categoriesEnacted
CA AB 1159

Tightens rules on how California schools and their ed-tech vendors collect, retain, and use student data. Bans commercial sale or ad-targeting use of school-collected data and imposes retention-minimization and parental-access requirements.

3 categoriesProposed
CA AB 1700

Establishes an independent California eSafety Commission modeled on Australia's eSafety Commissioner, with authority to receive platform safety reports, publish transparency data, and coordinate cross-agency enforcement on online harms to minors.

1 categoryProposed
CA AB 1709

Establishes a statewide minimum age of 16 to create a social media account in California, with verifiable parental consent required for users aged 13 through 15. Platforms must block account creation for children under 13 and apply protective defaults for 13–15 accounts.

3 categoriesProposed
CA AB 2

Raises platform financial liability when a covered product knowingly or willfully contributes to harm to a minor. Creates a duty-of-care evidentiary standard, requires algorithmic audits, and mandates parental notification of qualifying safety events.

3 categoriesProposed
CA AB 2023

Establishes baseline safety and transparency standards for general-purpose AI chatbots available to minors. Requires age-tiered feature gating, clear disclosure that the user is interacting with AI, and prohibits engagement-maximizing dark patterns on minor accounts.

4 categoriesProposed
CA AB 2617

Restricts exposure of minors to gambling-style mechanics in games and apps, including loot boxes, wagering-linked predictive markets, and pressure-based in-app purchases. Requires platforms to block or gate qualifying mechanics on minor accounts.

3 categoriesProposed
CA Addiction Act

California law restricting notification delivery to minors during school hours and banning addictive design features that target children.

2 categoriesEnacted
CA Kids Safe AI Initiative

Proposed ballot measure establishing statutory duties for AI products used by minors, including age assurance, prohibitions on emotional manipulation and romantic simulation, required parental controls, and a ban on ad targeting to children.

4 categoriesProposed
CA SB 867

Applies product-safety and disclosure requirements to AI-enabled toys and conversational devices marketed to or used by children. Requires classification, safety certification, and restrictions on certain generative behaviors in child-facing products.

2 categoriesProposed
CA SB 976Guide

Bans addictive feeds and notifications during school hours for minors. Platforms must default to chronological feeds.

8 categoriesEnacted
CT SB 3

Connecticut law protecting minors from addictive platform features and restricting unsolicited contact. Requires platforms to default to safest settings for accounts identified as minors.

3 categoriesEnacted
FL HB 3

Florida law requiring age verification for social media platforms and prohibiting minors under 14 from holding accounts. Minors 14-15 need parental consent.

2 categoriesInjunction
GA HB 597

Georgia law requiring age verification for social media platforms to prevent minors from accessing age-restricted content.

2 categoriesEnacted
IA SF 2309

Iowa law requiring age verification for online platforms to protect minors, with parental consent requirements for children's accounts.

2 categoriesEnacted
ID Age Verify

Idaho law requiring age verification for platforms hosting content harmful to minors, mandating commercially reasonable age verification methods.

1 categoryEnacted
KY Age Verify

Kentucky law requiring age verification for platforms hosting content harmful to minors, with civil liability for non-compliance.

1 categoryEnacted
LA Act 440

First-in-nation state porn-AV law requiring commercial pornography websites to verify user age via the state's LA Wallet digital ID system or equivalent. Inspired the wave of state porn-AV laws (TX HB 1181, AR, NC, VA, OH, MS, etc.).

2 categoriesEnacted
LA Act 456

Louisiana law requiring age verification for social media platforms and restricting minor access without parental consent.

3 categoriesInjunction
LA HB 1

Louisiana's statewide ban on student cellphone use throughout the school day in public K-12 schools. Devices must be off and out of sight from the first bell to the last, with school-board-approved exceptions for documented health, learning, or safety needs.

2 categoriesEnacted
MA S2619

Massachusetts bill targeting dark patterns and addictive design in platforms used by minors, with bans on targeted advertising to children.

2 categoriesPassed
MD Kids Code

Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code requiring platforms to default to maximum privacy settings for minors, including geolocation disabled by default and data protection impact assessments.

2 categoriesEnacted
MD ODPA

Comprehensive consumer-privacy statute built around a strict data-minimization model — one of the most protective in the US. Bans sale of sensitive personal data, bars targeted advertising to known minors under 18, and limits data collection to what is reasonably necessary to deliver the product or service.

4 categoriesEnacted
MN HF 2

Minnesota bill requiring platforms to implement usage awareness tools for minor users, including periodic screen time reminders and usage dashboards.

2 categoriesProposed
MS HB 1126

Mississippi law restricting social media access for minors, requiring age verification and parental consent for account creation.

3 categoriesEnacted
NE Age Verify

Nebraska law requiring age verification for platforms hosting content harmful to minors, establishing obligations for commercial content publishers.

1 categoryEnacted
NY NYCDPA

New York Child Data Protection Act focusing on commercial data collection from minors, with strong data minimization and deletion rights for child accounts.

2 categoriesProposed
NY S4609 / A6549 (SOPA)

Requires platforms to block unsolicited direct messages from non-connected adult accounts to minors, apply friction on stranger outreach, default minor profiles to non-public, and require parental approval for purchases and connection requests.

5 categoriesProposed
NY S7263 / A6545

Restricts the use of engagement-maximizing algorithmic features on minor accounts. Platforms must default minors to non-personalized feeds, disable autoplay and infinite scroll, and submit to algorithmic audits covering minor-user impact.

5 categoriesProposed
NY S8102 / A8893

Requires covered platforms to publish teen-safety transparency reports, retain evidence sufficient to evaluate liability claims, and submit to annual independent algorithmic audits. Strengthens accountability for engagement systems that affect teen users.

3 categoriesProposed
NY S8217 / A8022

Requires streaming services operating in New York to apply and enforce age ratings on individual titles, block age-restricted content on minor profiles by default, and make ratings available through machine-readable metadata for parental-control systems.

2 categoriesProposed
NY S8484 / A9106

Establishes safety standards specifically for AI companion products (apps whose primary function is ongoing simulated relationship with a user). Prohibits companion-style products on minor accounts and requires age-tiered feature gating for any system that may create a minor user.

3 categoriesProposed
NY S9051 / A10379

Prohibits specified unsafe AI-chatbot behaviors when the user is or is likely to be a minor, including simulated romantic companionship, unsupervised therapy roleplay, self-harm facilitation, personhood deception, and CSAM generation. Requires age assertion before age-restricted features unlock.

8 categoriesProposed
NY SAFE for Kids

Prohibits addictive algorithmic feeds for minors without parental consent and mandates notification-free quiet hours.

3 categoriesEnacted
OH HB 33

Ohio law requiring platforms to obtain parental consent for users under 16, with restrictions on direct messaging to minor accounts.

4 categoriesInjunction
PA AI Children

Regulates AI interactions with minors by requiring age verification for AI services, prohibiting minors from using AI companion chatbots, and criminalizing AI systems that solicit sexually explicit content from or encourage self-harm in minors. Penalties up to $100,000 per violation.

8 categoriesProposed
PA HB 1814

Companion bill to SB 1014 amending the Public School Code to establish statewide phone-free school policies. Sponsored by Rep. Mandy Steele with 17 co-sponsors and PSEA (Pennsylvania State Education Association) support.

3 categoriesPending
PA Online Safety

Kids Code / KOSA-style legislation requiring platforms to conduct data protection impact assessments before launching services for minors. Prohibits collecting or selling child geolocation data, profiling children by default, and using design patterns that lead children to provide personal information.

7 categoriesProposed
PA SB 1014

Requires all public schools in Pennsylvania to implement bell-to-bell phone-free policies. Students must store devices in lockers or locking pouches during school hours, with exceptions for medical needs, IEP/504 plans, and ELL accommodations.

3 categoriesPassed
PA SB 378

Establishes rules for how Pennsylvania public schools and their third-party vendors collect, store, and share student data. Increases transparency for parents, creates accountability mechanisms for vendors, and requires verifiable parental consent for specified data-collection activities involving minors.

8 categoriesPassed
SC Age Verify

South Carolina law requiring age verification for platforms hosting content harmful to minors, with both AG enforcement and private right of action.

1 categoryEnacted
TN HB 1891

Tennessee law requiring social media platforms to implement screen time awareness features for minor users, including configurable usage timer notifications.

3 categoriesEnacted
TX HB 1181

Texas law requiring commercial pornography websites to verify the age of every user via government ID or transactional data. Survived SCOTUS challenge in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (June 2025) — important precedent.

2 categoriesEnacted
TX SCOPE ActGuide

Texas law requiring parental consent for minors to access social media, with age verification requirements and monitoring provisions for platforms serving minors.

5 categoriesInjunction
UT App Store Accountability Act

First-in-nation law shifting the age-verification and parental-consent burden from individual apps to the app-store operator. Requires Apple and Google to verify the age of every Utah user and obtain verifiable parental consent before a minor downloads an app. Per-app re-verification becomes unnecessary once the OS-tier attestation exists.

3 categoriesEnacted
UT Phone-Free Schools

Directs Utah public schools to adopt bell-to-bell phone-free policies during instructional hours. Student personal devices must be stored or otherwise inaccessible during class time, with documented exceptions for medical, IEP/504, and ELL needs.

2 categoriesEnacted
UT SMRA

Utah law imposing curfews on minor social media use, requiring age verification, and banning addictive design features targeting minors.

4 categoriesEnacted
VA SB 854

Requires platforms to suppress non-essential notifications during nighttime and provide configurable screen time limits.

2 categoriesEnacted
VT S69

Vermont age-appropriate design code requiring platforms to disable addictive design features, ban targeted ads, and default geolocation to off for minors.

3 categoriesEnacted
European Union9
DE JMStV

German interstate treaty governing youth protection in media, requiring content classification, age verification, and filtering for online services accessible by minors.

3 categoriesEnacted
ES Digital Minors

Spain's comprehensive law protecting minors in digital environments, requiring age verification, parental consent, and prohibiting addictive design patterns targeting children.

3 categoriesEnacted
EU AI ActGuide

The EU AI Act includes specific provisions protecting minors from AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities, manipulate behavior, or use subliminal techniques harmful to children.

3 categoriesEnacted
EU CSAR

Proposed EU regulation requiring platforms to detect and report child sexual abuse material, including scanning of private communications.

1 categoryProposed
EU DSAGuide

Comprehensive EU regulation banning targeted ads to minors and requiring risk assessments for algorithmic systems.

4 categoriesEnacted
FR SRENGuide

French law requiring age verification for accessing certain online content and establishing image rights protections for minors, including provisions against sharenting.

2 categoriesEnacted
GDPR Art. 8Guide

GDPR Article 8 establishes conditions for child consent to data processing, requiring parental consent for children under 16 (or 13, depending on member state).

5 categoriesEnacted
IE OSMRA

Irish law establishing Coimisiún na Meán as online safety regulator, with powers to issue binding online safety codes and designate platforms for compliance obligations protecting children.

4 categoriesEnacted
IT Agcom AV

Italy's age verification decree issued by communications authority Agcom, requiring robust age checks and content filtering for minors.

2 categoriesEnacted
United Kingdom2
Asia-Pacific11
AU OSAGuide

Establishes the eSafety Commissioner with powers to enforce age verification and removal of content harmful to children.

1 categoryEnacted
AU SMMA

Australian law establishing a minimum age of 16 for social media access, with significant penalties for platforms that fail to enforce age verification.

2 categoriesEnacted
ID GR 17

Indonesian government regulation requiring platforms to implement age verification, content rating, and privacy protections for children accessing digital services.

6 categoriesEnacted
India DPDPAGuide

Complete ban on behavioral monitoring and targeted advertising directed at children. Verifiable parental consent required.

2 categoriesEnacted
JP YIEA

Japanese law requiring ISPs and device manufacturers to provide content filtering for minors, promoting a safe internet environment for young people.

2 categoriesEnacted
KR JPA

South Korean law restricting minors' access to online games during nighttime hours and requiring content rating for all games and media accessible to juveniles.

2 categoriesEnacted
KR PIPA

South Korea's comprehensive data protection law with strengthened provisions for children's personal information, requiring parental consent and restricting data processing for minors.

4 categoriesEnacted
NZ SM Proposal

New Zealand government proposal to establish a minimum age for social media access, modeled on Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act.

2 categoriesProposed
PH COTG

Philippines National Privacy Commission guidelines on transparency requirements for processing children's personal data, emphasizing best interests and data protection.

2 categoriesEnacted
SG PDPA

Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission guidelines on collecting, using, and disclosing personal data of children, emphasizing consent and data protection.

3 categoriesEnacted
TH PDPA

Thailand's data protection law requiring parental consent for processing data of minors under 20, with strict privacy safeguards.

2 categoriesEnacted
Americas5
BR LGPDGuide

Brazil's data protection law includes specific child provisions banning targeted advertising to minors, supplemented by the Digital ECA bill strengthening children's digital rights.

5 categoriesEnacted
CA Bill C-63Guide

Canadian bill establishing a duty of care for online platforms to protect children from harmful content, with specific provisions for CSAM reporting and addictive design restrictions.

4 categoriesProposed
CL PDP

Chilean personal data protection bill with specific provisions for children's data, establishing a data protection authority and rights including data deletion for minors.

4 categoriesPending
CO Ley 2300

Colombia's updated data protection law strengthening privacy protections for minors with enhanced parental consent requirements.

2 categoriesEnacted
MX LFPDPPP

Mexican federal data protection law with provisions for minors' personal data, requiring parental consent and data protection measures for children's information.

2 categoriesEnacted
Middle East & Africa5
KE DPA

Kenya's data protection framework with child-specific provisions requiring parental consent for processing minors' personal data.

2 categoriesEnacted
NG NDPA

Nigeria's comprehensive data protection framework establishing rules for processing personal data of minors with parental consent requirements.

2 categoriesEnacted
SA PDPL

Saudi Arabia's comprehensive data protection law with specific provisions for children's data, requiring explicit parental consent and prohibiting processing that harms minors' interests.

3 categoriesEnacted
UAE Decree 26Guide

UAE law establishing comprehensive child digital safety requirements, including age verification, targeted ad bans, privacy protections, and restrictions on addictive design for platforms serving children under 13.

6 categoriesEnacted
ZA POPIA

South Africa's data protection law with specific child provisions requiring parental consent and restricting commercial use of children's data.

3 categoriesEnacted

The registry is also available as JSON at /api/compliance/laws — single laws, rule-category mappings, and jurisdiction filtering included.

The relationship

The vocabulary is the standard's. We just implement it.

The rule categories these statutes map to belong to OCSS — the Open Child Safety Specification, currently an individual IETF Internet-Draft (Draft 4, pre-release), not yet ratified and not a standards-body publication. Phosra is its reference implementer and one accredited network on it — like Yubico for FIDO2: we build the thing, we don't control the standard. The canonical rule registry and conformance suite live at openchildsafety.com — not here.

That separation is the point. A mapping you can check against an open registry is worth more than one vendor's claim — which is why the categories, the statutes, and the conformance tests are all public, and why nothing on this page asks you to take our word for it.

Keep the registry honest

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We monitor global child-safety legislation weekly and add new laws as they're introduced. If you know of a regulation we haven't mapped, point us at it — the registry is only useful if it's complete.