A Utah Senate committee advanced a bill that would require social media companies to set age limits for creating accounts.
Cox's brother-in-law, Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, is sponsoring the bill, which would require social media companies to use age verification to prevent minors from signing up without their parent's permission and would prohibit companies from collecting or selling personal data of minors.
Aimee Winder Newton, senior adviser and director of the new Utah Office of Families, speaks with Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, about social media regulation bill SB152 in the Senate Business and Labor committee meeting at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. "Sometimes it can feel like they are an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff," he said. "As kids come falling off they will be there to help them and protect them and go after the predator. If we could put a fence at the top, it might mean fewer children falling off."
Not everyone was in support of the bill, and some — including 13-year-old Lucy Loewen — said the benefits of social media can outweigh the downside. Lucy said teenagers can use social media to connect with friends and that those connections can help them deal with depression and suicidal thoughts. "That kind of data in the hands of any company really is dangerous, because it's not a matter of if it will be breached; it's a matter of when," he said. "When that kind of information goes on the dark web, it becomes a real danger to children to have their age and home address ."
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