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Digital safety and shopping laws in Federal

Federal statutes and agency rules apply to every household in the country, whatever your state has done.

16 tracked · 7 in force · see all jurisdictions

Moving Federal Families Aug 2026

Kids Online Safety Act — KOSA (S. 1748)

Advanced unanimously by Senate Commerce in August 2026; heads to the floor, then reconciliation with the House package

KOSA would require platforms to turn on the strongest safety settings by default for minors and give parents tools to limit addictive features. Its duty of care would make platforms legally responsible for designs that harm kids — the provision the House version dropped, and the main fight left.

What it means at your kitchen tableParents would get default-on protections instead of hunting through settings, and platforms could be held accountable for endless scroll and algorithmic feeds shown to minors.

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Moving Federal Families Aug 2026

CHATBOT Act and the Senate kids-AI package (S. 4407)

Advanced by Senate Commerce August 2026 alongside KOSA; awaiting the floor

Part of the Senate's kids-AI package, it sets safety and transparency rules for consumer AI chatbots minors use, complementing the GUARD Act's outright ban on AI companions for kids.

What it means at your kitchen tableAI chat tools your kids encounter — in apps, toys, and homework helpers — would face federal safety requirements rather than today's patchwork.

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Moving Federal Families Jun 2026

KIDS Act — House kids-safety package (H.R. 7757)

Passed the House 267-117 in June 2026; awaiting Senate action

A package bill rolling 14 kids-online-safety proposals into one law: COPPA 2.0 privacy rules, parental controls on social media and games, limits on adult content, and AI chatbot disclosures for minors — with new protections for teens 14-17.

What it means at your kitchen tableIf enacted, every major platform, game, and chatbot your kids use would need real parental controls, no targeted ads to minors, and honesty about AI. Currently the most likely vehicle for federal kids-safety law.

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Moving Federal Families Apr 2026

GUARD Act — AI companions and minors (S. 3062)

Advanced unanimously by Senate Judiciary in April 2026; awaiting a floor vote

Would ban AI companion chatbots for anyone under 18, require age verification and repeated we-are-not-human disclosures, and create criminal penalties for bots that engage minors in sexual content or encourage self-harm.

What it means at your kitchen tableKids could no longer form relationships with AI companion apps, and every chatbot would have to check ages — the leading federal answer to California's already-enacted law.

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Struck down Federal Shopping Mar 2026

FTC Click-to-Cancel Rule — struck down, being rewritten

Vacated by the Eighth Circuit July 2025 on procedural grounds; FTC restarted rulemaking March 2026; enforcement continues under existing law, including Amazon's $2.5 billion Prime settlement

The federal rule that would have made canceling a subscription as easy as signing up was struck down before it took effect — not for what it said, but because the FTC skipped a required economic analysis. A replacement rule is being written, and the FTC keeps suing companies under existing law meanwhile.

What it means at your kitchen tableThere's currently no nationwide click-to-cancel requirement, so subscription traps remain legal friction in most states — though California's own law fills the gap for many services families use.

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Moving Federal Families Mar 2026

COPPA 2.0 (S. 836 / H.R. 6291)

Passed the Senate unanimously March 2026; House version folded into the KIDS Act — awaiting reconciliation

Updates the 1998 children's privacy law to cover teenagers, not just kids under 13: bans targeted advertising to minors and creates an eraser button letting kids or parents demand deletion of collected data.

What it means at your kitchen tableCompanies could no longer track and profile your teen for ad targeting, and families would get a legal right to wipe a child's data. The closest-to-passage item on this list.

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Moving Federal Shopping Jan 2026

Click to Cancel Consumer Protection Act (S. 2254)

Reintroduced January 2026 after courts vacated the FTC rule; pending in committee

Would make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up — one click, no phone-call mazes — and require consent before free trials convert to paid, with renewal reminders. Congress is acting because a court threw out the FTC rule that did the same thing.

What it means at your kitchen tableThe average family wastes about $200 a year on forgotten or hard-to-cancel subscriptions; this would end subscription traps nationwide.

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Enacted Federal Shopping Aug 2025

End of the $800 duty-free import loophole

In effect since 2025; survived the Supreme Court tariff ruling; statutory repeal locks in July 2027

The loophole that let Shein, Temu, and similar sites ship packages under $800 into the US duty-free and nearly uninspected is gone. Sub-$800 parcels dropped by half within months, Temu shifted to US warehouses, and Congress made the repeal permanent from 2027.

What it means at your kitchen tableUltra-fast-fashion hauls are no longer artificially cheap, and packages face customs scrutiny — which also catches more counterfeit and unsafe children's products that used to slip through.

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Enacted Federal Shopping May 2025

FTC Junk Fees Rule

Final rule, in effect since May 2025

When you buy event tickets or book hotels and vacation rentals, the total price with all mandatory fees must be shown up front, not revealed at checkout. Drip pricing — a cheap-looking price that balloons with resort and service fees — is banned in those markets nationwide.

What it means at your kitchen tableFamilies comparing hotel or ticket prices can trust the first price they see; violators face penalties over $50,000 per violation.

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Withdrawn Federal Shopping May 2025

Federal Buy-Now-Pay-Later protections — withdrawn

2024 rule withdrawn by the CFPB in May 2025; no federal replacement planned

In 2024 the CFPB said buy-now-pay-later providers must give users credit-card-style protections — the right to dispute charges and get refunds for returns. In 2025 it withdrew that rule and said it won't replace it.

What it means at your kitchen tableFamilies using pay-in-4 at checkout currently have no guaranteed federal right to dispute a charge or get a refund credited — protections depend on the provider's own policies and state law.

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Congress.gov page for S.146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, showing the LAW banner and the Became Law tracker

Enacted Federal Families May 2025

TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146)

Signed May 2025; fully in effect — FTC platform takedown enforcement began May 2026

Makes it a federal crime to post real or AI-generated intimate images of someone without their consent, including deepfakes of minors. Every major platform must offer a simple removal request and take the image down within 48 hours, with an FTC complaint portal behind it.

What it means at your kitchen tableIf a teen is ever targeted with a fake or leaked intimate image, parents have a fast, legally backed way to force it offline — no lawyers required.

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Federal Register notice for the FTC's amended Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule

Federal Register

Enacted Federal Families Apr 2025

COPPA Rule Amendments (FTC Final Rule)

Effective June 2025; full compliance required since April 2026

The first update to children's online privacy rules since 2013. Apps and sites aimed at kids under 13 need separate parental permission before sharing a child's data with advertisers, can't keep kids' data indefinitely, and must protect categories like biometric data.

What it means at your kitchen tableThe apps and games your under-13 kids use can no longer quietly feed their data to ad networks — you have to say yes first, and you can say no.

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Moving Federal Shopping Apr 2025

TICKET Act (H.R. 1402 / S. 281)

Passed the House 409-15 in 2025; awaiting a Senate floor vote, widely expected to pass

Requires ticket sellers for concerts, sports, and events to show the full, all-in price — every fee included — up front in ads and search results, and bans selling tickets the seller doesn't actually have.

What it means at your kitchen tableNo more $35 tickets that become $60 at checkout; families could comparison-shop events honestly. The most likely consumer-shopping bill to become law.

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Federal Register notice for the FTC's trade regulation rule on consumer reviews and testimonials

Federal Register

Enacted Federal Shopping Oct 2024

FTC Fake Reviews Rule

In effect since October 2024; enforcement warning letters began late 2025

It is now illegal to buy, sell, or fake product reviews, use AI-generated fake reviews, pay for positive ones, suppress negative ones, or fake follower counts — with fines over $50,000 per violation.

What it means at your kitchen tableThe star ratings families rely on when picking products are more likely to be genuine, and there's now a legal hammer against sellers who game them.

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Congress.gov page for S.474, the REPORT Act

Enacted Federal Families May 2024

REPORT Act (S. 474)

Signed May 2024; in effect

Tightens the pipeline between tech platforms and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: platforms must report child trafficking and online enticement — not just abuse images — keep evidence for a full year, and face bigger penalties for failing to report.

What it means at your kitchen tableWhen something terrible is reported about a child online, the evidence now sticks around long enough for police to actually investigate, and platforms can't look the other way on grooming.

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Enacted Federal Shopping Jun 2023

INFORM Consumers Act

In effect since June 2023; actively enforced — Temu paid a $2 million penalty in 2025

Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart must verify the identity of high-volume third-party sellers and disclose the seller's name and contact information to buyers, targeting counterfeiters who hide behind anonymous storefronts.

What it means at your kitchen tableWhen a family buys from a third-party seller on a marketplace, they can see who the seller actually is — making counterfeit and unsafe goods easier to avoid and trace.

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