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1White House, Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris 

Administration Announces Actions to Protect 

Youth Mental Health, Safety & Privacy Online, The 

White House, (White House Fact Sheet) (May 23, 

2023).https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ 

statements-releases/2023/05/23/fact-sheet-bidenharris-administration-announces-actions-to-protectyouth-mental-health-safety-privacy-online. 

2 Id. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Pacific Council) 

Groundfish Management Team (GMT) 

will hold a week-long in-person work 

session that is open to the public. 

DATES: The GMT meeting will be held 

Monday, January 29, 2024, from 12:30 

p.m., Pacific Standard Time, until 

business for the day has been 

completed. The GMT will reconvene 

Tuesday, January 30 through Friday, 

February 2, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. until 

business for each day has been 

completed. 

ADDRESSES: 

Meeting address: The meeting will be 

held at the Pacific Fishery Management 

Council Office, Large Conference Room, 

7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101, 

Portland, OR 97220–1384. 

This work session is being conducted 

in person with a web broadcast that 

provides the opportunity for remote 

public comment. Specific meeting 

information, including directions on 

how to join the meeting and system 

requirements will be provided in the 

meeting announcement on the Pacific 

Council’s website (see 

www.pcouncil.org). Please contact Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov) or (503) 820–2412 for 

technical assistance. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Todd Phillips, Pacific Council; 

telephone: (503) 820–2426. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

primary purpose of this week-long work 

session is for the GMT to prepare for 

2024 Pacific Council meetings. Specific 

agenda items will include: the 2025/ 

2026 harvest specifications and 

management measure process, stock 

assessment and review planning, and 

GMT chair/vice chair elections. The 

GMT may also address groundfish 

management actions the Pacific Council 

has indicated on their Year-at-a-Glance 

calendar, such as: stock definitions, 

limited entry fixed gear marking and 

entanglement risk reduction, and 

groundfish workload and new 

management measure prioritization 

agenda items. A detailed agenda will be 

available on the Pacific Council’s 

website prior to the meeting. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may be 

discussed, those issues may not be the 

subject of formal action during these 

meetings. Action will be restricted to 

those issues specifically listed in this 

document and any issues arising after 

publication of this document that 

require emergency action under section 

305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the intent to take final action to address 

the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or auxiliary aids should 

be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 

(kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov; (503) 820– 

2412) at least 10 business days prior to 

the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: September 27, 2023. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21727 Filed 9–29–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

[Docket No. 230926–0233] 

RIN 0660–XC059 

Initiative To Protect Youth Mental 

Health, Safety & Privacy Online 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Preventing and mitigating any 

adverse health effects from use of online 

platforms on minors, while preserving 

benefits such platforms have on minors’ 

health and well-being, are critical 

priorities of the Biden-Harris 

Administration. On behalf of the 

Department of Commerce and in 

conjunction with the other members of 

the United States government’s Task 

Force on Kids Online Health & Safety, 

the National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration (NTIA) 

seeks broad input and feedback from 

stakeholders on current and emerging 

risks of health (including mental 

health), safety, and privacy harms to 

minors arising from use of online 

platforms. This request also seeks 

information about potential health, 

safety and privacy benefits stemming 

from minors’ use of online platforms. 

Finally, we seek input on current and 

future industry efforts to mitigate harms 

and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of minors who access these online 

platforms. The data gathered through 

this process will be used to inform the 

Biden-Harris Administration’s work to 

advance the health, safety, and privacy 

of minors. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before November 16, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: All electronic public 

comments on this action, identified by 

Regulations.gov docket number NTIA– 

2023–0008, may be submitted through 

the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. The docket 

established for this request for comment 

can be found at www.Regulations.gov, 

NTIA–2023–0008. To make a 

submission, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ 

icon, complete the required fields, and 

enter or attach your comments. 

Additional instructions can be found in 

the ‘‘Instructions’’ section below after 

‘‘Supplementary Information.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please direct questions regarding this 

Request for Comment to Kids Online 

team at KOHSrfc@ntia.gov with ‘‘Kids 

Online Request for Comment’’ in the 

subject line. If submitting comments by 

U.S. mail, please address questions to 

Ruth Yodaiken, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230. Questions 

submitted via telephone should be 

directed to (202)–482–4067. Please 

direct media inquiries to NTIA’s Office 

of Public Affairs, telephone: (202) 482– 

7002; email: press@ntia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background and Authority 

On May 23, 2023, the Biden-Harris 

Administration announced several key 

actions to protect the health, safety, and 

privacy of young people online, 

including the formation of an 

interagency Kids Online Health and 

Safety Task Force (Task Force).1 The 

Task Force was developed primarily in 

response to concerns about the role that 

online platforms have in the 

‘‘unprecedented youth mental health 

crisis’’ in the United States today.2

In order to address health and safety 

concerns related to minors and the 

online environment, the Task Force will 

‘‘review the status of existing industry 

efforts and technologies to promote the 

health and safety of children and 


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3 Id. For the purposes of this Request for 

Comment, the term ‘‘social media’’ and ‘‘online 

platforms’’ encompass a wide array of modern 

technology from video sharing networks, such as 

TikTok, Twitch and YouTube, to social networks 

such as Facebook, Instagram. It includes the many 

gaming networks in addition to Twitch, such as 

Discord, Roblox and Xbox, which allow individuals 

to interact with each other through, and adjacent to, 

games. 

4American Psychiatric Association, New APA 

Poll Shows Sustained Anxiety Among Americans; 

More than Half of Parents are Concerned About the 

Mental Well-Being of Their Children (May 2, 2021), 

https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/newsreleases/new-apa-poll-shows-sustained-anxietyamong-americans-more-than-half-of-parents-areconcerned-about-the-mental-well-being-of-theirchildren. 

5White House Fact Sheet. 

6 Dept. Of Health and Human Services, Social 

Media and Youth Mental Health—Current Priorities 

of the U.S. Surgeon General (Advisory) (May 23, 

2023), at 3–4, https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/ 

priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/ 

index.html. 7Advisory at 13 –20. 

8See Dept. of Health and Human Services, Social 

Media and Youth Mental health: The U.S. Surgeon 

General’s Advisory (Executive Summary) (2023), 

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youthmental-health-social-media-summary.pdf. 9Advisory at 13. 

10The terms ‘‘minors’’ and ‘‘youths’’ are used in 

this document to describe people under 18 years of 

age. 11See generally, Advisory. 

12See, e.g., Advisory at 8–9; Southern District of 

Indiana | FBI and Partners Issue National Public 

Safety Alert on Sextortion Schemes, Department of 

Justice, (Jan. 19, 2023), https://www.justice.gov/ 

usao-sdin/pr/fbi-and-partners-issue-nationalpublic-safety-alert-sextortion-schemes 

13See, e.g., Advisory at 8 (noting the issue of 

social comparison). 

14See, e.g., Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

International Law Enforcement Agencies Issue Joint 

Warning About Global Financial Sextortion Crisis, 

Press Release, (Feb. 7, 2023), https://www.fbi.gov/ 

news/press-releases/international-law-enforcementagencies-issue-joint-warning-about-global-financialsextortion-crisis. 

15See, generally, StopBullying.gov, What Is 

Cyberbullying, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, https://www.stopbullying.gov/ 

cyberbullying/what-is-it; Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, Adolescent and School Health: 

Data & Statistics, https://www.cdc.gov/ 

healthyyouth/data/index.htm. 

16See, e.g., Advisory at 9; National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, Comments of NTIA Regarding 

Commercial Surveillance ANPR R1104 Before the 

Federal Trade Commission, FTC Docket 2022–0053, 

at 14–16, 20–21, https://ntia.gov/sites/default/files/ 

publications/ftc_commercial_surveillance_anpr_

ntia_comment_final.pdf. 

teenagers vis-a`-vis their online 

activities, particularly with respect to 

their engagement in social media and 

other online platforms.’’ 3 The Task 

Force is further charged with 

developing voluntary guidance, policy 

recommendations, and a toolkit on 

safety-, health- and privacy-by-design 

for industry in developing digital 

products and services. 

The Task Force is led by the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services in close partnership with the 

Department of Commerce, through the 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration (NTIA). It is 

comprised of senior representatives 

from the Department of Education, the 

Department of Justice, the Department 

of Homeland Security, the Federal 

Trade Commission, the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

the Office of the Surgeon General, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, the National Institutes of 

Health, the Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Health, the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Children and 

Families, and the White House 

Domestic Policy Council, Office of 

Science and Technology Policy, the 

National Economic Council, and the 

Gender Policy Council. 

In announcing the Task Force, the 

Administration referred to existing 

research and reports from news and 

medical sources, including an American 

Psychiatric Association poll finding that 

‘‘[m]ore than half of parents express 

concern over their children’s mental 

well-being.’’ 4 The Administration cited 

‘‘undeniable evidence that social media 

and other online platforms have 

contributed to our youth mental health 

crisis.’’ 5

Concurrently, the Surgeon General of 

the United States issued an Advisory 

that labeled the potential harm to 

American youth stemming from use of 

online platforms an ‘‘urgent public 

health issue,’’ citing ‘‘increasing 

concerns among researchers, parents 

and caregivers, young people, 

healthcare experts, and others about the 

impact of social media on youth mental 

health,’’ 6 and called for action by, 

among others, technology and online 

service providers.7 Moreover, there is 

growing consensus about the need to 

fund research to more fully understand 

the complexity of the overall impact of 

social media, and technology use more 

generally on youth mental health and 

socio-emotional and cognitive 

development, including differential 

impacts by developmental stage and on 

certain populations of youth. Social 

media and other online platforms are 

nearly ubiquitous, and minors spend 

substantial amounts of time using them. 

Yet, technology and online service 

providers’ practices, such as design 

choices and policies regarding data 

access, have remained opaque to 

varying degrees, leaving the scientific 

community unable to fully understand 

the scope and scale of the impact that 

social media and other online platforms 

have had, and continue to have, on 

youth mental health and well-being.8 As 

the Surgeon General stated, action is 

needed now: ‘‘[C]hildren and 

adolescents don’t have the luxury of 

waiting years until we know the full 

extent of social media’s impact. Their 

childhoods and development are 

happening now.’’ 9

1. Health, Safety and Privacy: Specific 

Areas of Concern 

Minors’ use of social media and other 

online platforms have produced an 

evolving and broad set of concerns, 

touching on, among other things, health, 

safety, and privacy. 10 These concerns 

include impacts upon mental health, 

brain development, attention span, 

sleep, addiction, anxiety, and 

depression.11 These concerns stem from 

both the design of the social media 

environment and the specific types of 

content to which minors are exposed, 

often repeatedly over long periods of 

time. Exposure to self-harming and 

suicide-related content, for example, 

have been linked in some cases to 

deaths of minors.12 Some online 

material appears to disproportionately 

affect subgroups of youth, including 

racial, ethnic, sexual and gender groups. 

For example, evidence shows that such 

sustained and high volume exposure to 

online materials negatively affect girls’ 

self-esteem and body images.13 Safety is 

also an area of concern related to use of 

online platforms, particularly the risk of 

predators targeting minors online for 

physical, psychological, and other forms 

of abuse, including sexual exploitation, 

extortion (or sextortion) 14 and 

cyberbullying.15 Adult and children 

frequently use the same online 

platforms, particularly social media 

platforms, and that enables adults to 

readily engage children who are illequipped to understand the adults’ 

intentions. Parents and guardians, who 

are called upon to regulate their 

children’s use of online platforms, are 

often provided little to no information 

about these potential harms. Minors 

similarly lack the necessary 

information. 

Social media and other online 

platforms also pose risks to minors of 

infringements on privacy, with concerns 

focused on the particularly sensitive 

nature of images and other personally 

identifiable information such as 

educational records, including misuse, 

minors’ vulnerability to harms from 

those with access to such information, 

and, more generally, minors’ exposure 

to comprehensive surveillance.16

Concerns regarding minors’ privacy are 

exacerbated by the rise of data analytics 

and tracking tools that collect and make 

use of large quantities of personal data, 


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17See, e.g., Federal Trade Commission, 

Commercial Surveillance and Data Security 

Rulemaking, https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/ 

browse/federal-register-notices/commercialsurveillance-data-security-rulemaking (providing 

links to the Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking in that area and related material). For 

information about how design has been used to 

manipulate content generally, including to keep 

people engaged online and to influence online 

decisions, see, e.g., Arunesh Mathur, et al., Dark 

Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K 

Shopping websites, Proceedings of the ACM on 

Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 3, Issue CSCW, 

Article No.: 81 (Sept. 20, 2019), https://dl.acm.org/ 

doi/10.1145/3359183. 

18See, e.g., Statement of Frances Haugen, United 

States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science 

and Transportation, (Oct. 4, 2021), https:// 

www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/ 

FC8A558E-824E-4914-BEDB-3A7B1190BD49; See, 

also, Federal Trade Commission Proposes Blanket 

Prohibition Preventing Facebook from Monetizing 

Youth Data, Press Release (May 3, 2023), https://

www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/ 

05/ftc-proposes-blanket-prohibition-preventingfacebook-monetizing-youth-data (regarding FTC 

changes to a privacy order with Facebook after 

alleged violations). 

19See, e.g., Lauren McCarthy, A Wellness Chatbot 

is Offline After its ‘Harmful’’ Focus on Weight Loss, 

The New York Times (June. 8, 2023), https:// 

www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/ai-chatbot-tessaeating-disorders-association.html?smid=url-share; 

Center for Countering Digital Hate, AI and Eating 

Disorders: How Generative AI Enables and 

Promotes Harmful Eating Disorder Content (Aug. 7, 

2023), https://counterhate.com/research/ai-toolsand-eating-disorders. 

20More on this topic can be found on the NTIA 

web page on High-Speed internet, https:// 

www.ntia.gov/category/high-speed-internet. 

21See, e.g., Advisory at 6. 

22See, e.g., id.; see also Common Sense Media, 

Teens and Mental Health: How Girls Really Feel 

About Social Media (Mar 30, 2023), https:// 

www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/ 

research/report/how-girls-really-feel-about-socialmedia-researchreport_web_final_2.pdf. 

23White House Fact Sheet (‘‘Children are subject 

to the platforms’ excessive data collection, which 

they use to deliver sensational and harmful content 

and troves of paid advertising. And online 

platforms often use manipulative design techniques 

embedded in their products to promote addictive 

and compulsive use by young people to generate 

more revenue. Social media use in schools is 

affecting students’ mental health and disrupting 

learning. Advances in artificial intelligence could 

make these harms far worse, especially if not 

developed and deployed responsibly. Far too often, 

online platforms do not protect minors who use 

their products and services, even when alerted to 

the abuses experienced online.’’). 

24See, e.g., Pew Research Center, Teens, Social 

Media and Technology 2022, https:// 

www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teenssocial-media-and-technology-2022. 

25See, e.g., Kids Online Safety Act, S. 1409, 118th 

Cong. (2023), as amended and posted by the Senate 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

Transportation on July 27, 2023; see, also, Time 

Change: Protecting Our Children Online, Hearing 

Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Feb. 

14, 2023), https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ 

committee-activity/hearings/protecting-ourchildren-online; Kids Online During COVID: Child 

Safety in an Increasingly Digital Age, Hearing 

Before the House of Representatives Subcommittee 

on Consumer Protection and Commerce (Committee 

on Energy and Commerce), (Mar. 11, 2021), https:// 

docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?

EventID=111298. 

26See, e.g., California Age-Appropriate Design 

Code Act, AB 2273 (2022), https://leginfo.

legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_

id=202120220AB2273; Securing Children Online 

through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, H.B. 

18 (2023). 

27White House Fact Sheet. 

28See, e.g., National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Digital Identity Guidelines, Initial 

Public Draft SP 800–63–4 (Dec. 16, 2022), https:// 

csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/63/4/ipd. 

29See, e.g., Federal Trade Commission, Trade 

Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and 

Data Security; Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, Request for Public Comment, Public 

Forum, 87 FR 51273 (Aug. 22, 2022), https:// 

www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/08/22/ 

2022-17752/trade-regulation-rule-on-commercialsurveillance-and-data-security; Federal Trade 

Commission, FTC Seeks Comments on Children’s 

Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, Press Release 

(July 25, 2019), https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/ 

news/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-seeks-commentschildrens-online-privacy-protection-act-rule; 

Federal Trade Commission, FTC Extends Deadline 

for Comments on COPPA Rule until December 11, 

Press Release (Dec. 9, 2019), https://www.ftc.gov/ 

news-events/news/press-releases/2019/12/ftcextends-deadline-comments-coppa-rule-untildecember-11. 

30White House Fact Sheet (noting also that 

‘‘[s]ocial media use in schools is affecting students’ 

mental health and disrupting learning’’); see also 

The Washington Post, Students Can’t Get Off Their 

Continued 

often along with offering free or 

reduced-cost access to online services.17

Youth are among those most affected by 

the state of the industry and can be 

targeted specifically.18 In addition, as 

noted above, data –– especially if not 

secured properly—can be misused by 

predators for criminal or other purposes. 

Ongoing developments in 

communications and informationprocessing technologies, including rapid 

advances in artificial intelligence 

capabilities and use, might produce new 

risks to minors’ privacy, health and 

safety. For example, earlier this year, 

there were many news reports about an 

AI-powered chatbot that gave out what 

seemed to be harmful advice in 

response to inquiries about getting help 

for eating disorders.19

2. Benefits 

While social media and other online 

platforms pose risks to minors, these 

offerings also can facilitate and provide 

immense benefits for minors. The Biden 

Administration, through NTIA and 

other agencies, is engaged in an historic 

initiative to bring robust and affordable 

internet access to all Americans. This 

project will allow greater youth 

participation in the modern digital 

economy, open access to increased 

digital learning opportunities and afterschool activities, broaden access to 

health care (including telehealth), 

enhance civic engagement, help 

students participate in a wide range of 

activities, and more.20 Health or other 

benefits that social media and related 

platforms offer to many youth include, 

for example, creating space for selfexpression, developing and sustaining 

social connections, providing skillbuilding opportunities and buffering 

against negative conduct and speech, 

and providing online emergency 

services.21 The Surgeon General’s 

Advisory noted that access to online 

platforms is ‘‘especially important for 

youth who are often marginalized, 

including racial, ethnic, and sexual and 

gender minorities.’’ 22

3. Efforts To Assess and Address Risks, 

and Mitigate Harms 

The Task Force is charged with 

exploring ways to assess and address 

risks and harms to minors online. 

Among other things, the Task Force will 

evaluate how best to harness technology 

for these purposes and will consider 

best practices for social media and 

online platforms and their use.23 For 

many years, individuals and 

organizations around the globe have 

been working to identify specific risks 

and harms posed by evolving 

technologies and to explore methods 

and mechanisms to mitigate such 

harms.24 Congress has been exploring 

these issues through hearings and 

legislative proposals.25 Similarly, 

legislators in states, such as California 

and Texas, have been adopting 

measures to try to spur changes among 

social media and other companies.26

Provisions being explored include the 

use of default settings, adoption of 

particular privacy features, and further 

use of age gates (limiting access by age). 

Many agencies represented on the 

Task Force have taken actions designed 

to advance minors’ interests to protect 

their health, safety and privacy online. 

The Department of Commerce is 

working to ‘‘promote efforts to prevent 

online harassment and abuse’’ of youth 

by increasing awareness and support for 

youth victims, among other efforts.27

While not targeted at youth, the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology has worked with industry to 

improve ID verification and 

authentication that might be relevant to 

age verification.28 The Federal Trade 

Commission, which enforces the 

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act 

(COPPA), is assessing data surveillance 

practices both generally and with 

specific regard to minors.29 The 

Department of Education, which 

enforces the Family Educational Rights 

and Privacy Act (FERPA), is pursuing 

initiatives focused on privacy of 

students using digital technology for 

education.30 The Department of Justice 


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Phones. Schools Have Had Enough: Administrators 

See Them As an Intensifying Distraction — Or, 

Worse, a Tax on Students’ Mental Health, (May 9, 

2023), https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/ 

2023/05/09/school-cellphone-ban-yondr). 

31White House Fact Sheet (highlighting DOJ and 

DHS effort with National Center for Missing and 

Exploited Children (NCMEC)). 

32H.R.2161—117th Congress (2021–2022): 

CAMRA Act, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117thcongress/house-bill/2161/text?r=16&s=1; Senators 

Markey, Bipartisan Colleagues Celebrate Passage of 

CAMRA Act to Fund Research on Impact of Tech 

on Childhood Development (senate.gov), https:// 

www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ 

senators-markey-bipartisan-colleagues-celebratepassage-of-camra-act-to-fund-research-on-impactof-tech-on-childhood-development 

33See, e.g., (European Union) Digital Services 

Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European 

Parliament and of the Council on a Single Market 

for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/ 

31/EC (Digital Services Act), Oct. 19, 2022), 

(including prohibitions on targeted adverts to 

children), https://commission.europa.eu/strategyand-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digitalage/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe-andaccountable-online-environment_en; (UK) 

Information Commissioner’s Office, Age 

Appropriate Design: A Code of Practice for Online 

Services, https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/ukgdpr-guidance-and-resources/childrensinformation/childrens-code-guidance-andresources/age-appropriate-design-a-code-ofpractice-for-online-services/executive-summary. 

34See, (UK) Information Commissioner’s Office, 

Age Appropriate Design: A Code of Practice for 

Online Services, Code Standards, # 13, Nudge 

Techniques (‘‘Do not use nudge techniques to lead 

or encourage children to provide unnecessary 

personal data or weaken or turn off their privacy 

protections’’), https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/ 

uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/childrensinformation/childrens-code-guidance-andresources/age-appropriate-design-a-code-ofpractice-for-online-services/code-standards. 

35See, e.g., The Student Data Privacy Project, 

https://www.studentdataprivacyproject.com/ 

36See, e.g., Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn, and 

Alan Borning. 2008. Value Sensitive Design and 

Information Systems. In The Handbook of 

Information and Computer Ethics, Kenneth Einar 

Himma and Herman T. Tavani (eds.). John Wiley & 

Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, 69–101. DOI:https:// 

doi.org/10.1002/9780470281819.ch4; Lara Houston, 

Steven J Jackson, Daniela K Rosner, Syed Ishtiaque 

Ahmed, Meg Young, and Laewoo Kang. 2016. 

Values in Repair. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI 

Conference on Human Factors in Computing 

Systems—CHI ’16, ACM Press, New York, New 

York, USA, 1403–1414. DOI:https://doi.org/ 

10.1145/2858036.2858470 

37See, e.g., Jina Huh-Yoo, Afsaneh Razi, Diep N. 

Nguyen, Sampada Regmi, and Pamela J. 

Wisniewski. 2023. ‘‘Help Me:’’ Examining Youth’s 

Private Pleas for Support and the Responses 

Received from Peers via Instagram Direct Messages. 

In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on 

Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), 

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 

NY, USA, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/

3544548.3581233; Marie Louise Juul S<ndergaard, 

Marianela Ciolfi Felice, and Madeline Balaam. 

2021. Designing Menstrual Technologies with 

Adolescents. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI 

Conference on Human Factors in Computing 

Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. 

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445471 

38See, e.g., Microsoft, New Microsoft Research 

Illustrates the Online Risks and Value of Safety 

Tools to Keep Kids Safer in the Digital 

Environment, Microsoft On the Issues (Feb. 2, 

2023), https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/ 

2023/02/06/safer-internet-day-global-online-safetysurvey-2023; Instagram, Continuing to Make 

Instagram Safer for the Youngest Members of Our 

Community (Updated May 19, 2023), https://about.

instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-tomake-instagram-safer-for-the-youngest-members-ofour-community; Snapchat, Family Center—Parental 

Control For Teens, Snapchat Safety, https://

values.snap.com/safety/family-center (last visited 

Aug. 10, 2023) (noting it lets parents see who’s on 

their child’s friends list and who they kids are 

talking to, but not what they are saying); Twitch, 

Guide for Parents & Educators, https://

safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Guide-Parents-Educators?

language=en_US (last visited Aug. 10, 2023) 

(offering no parental controls, but, instead, 

guidance); Minecraft, Understanding Minecraft 

Social Features for Child Safety Online, Minecraft 

Help, https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/

360058605852-Understanding-Minecraft-SocialFeatures-for-Child-Safety-Online (last visited Aug. 

10, 2023) (noting that some versions of the game 

automatically censors swear words). 

39E.g., Alex Hern, Social Media Giants Increase 

Global Child Safety After UK Regulations 

Introduced, The Guardian (Sept. 5, 2021), https:// 

www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/05/socialmedia-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-ukregulations-introduced. 

40See, e.g., Roblox, Experience Guidelines, 

Documentation—Roblox Creator Hub, https://

create.roblox.com/docs/production/promotion/ 

experience-guidelines (last visited Aug. 10, 2023). 

41See., e.g., Discord, Tips for Parents on Helping 

Your Teen Stay Safe on Discord, https://

discord.com/safety/360044153831-helping-yourteen-stay-safe-on-discord (last visited Aug. 10, 

2023); and Answering Parents’ and Educators’ Top 

Questions, Question 7—How C can I monitor what 

my teen is doing in Discord, https://discord.com/ 

safety/360044149591-answering-parents-andeducators-top-questions#title-7 (last visited Aug. 10, 

2023). 

42 YouTube, YouTube Kids—Parent Resources: 

Tips and Tools for Your Family https:// 

www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_us/kids/parentresources (last visited Aug. 10, 2023). 

43See also, Neil Richards and Oliver Khairallah, 

The Privacy Advisor: Digital Child Protection is Not 

Censorship, International Association of Privacy 

Professionals (June 15, 2023), https://iapp.org/ 

news/a/digital-child-protection-is-not-censorship. 

44Advisory at 15 (noting what policy makers can 

do about access to data) and 16 (listing what tech 

companies can do). 

and the Department of Homeland 

Security are working to enhance their 

efforts to, among other things, (i) 

identify and prosecute those who 

sexually exploit children online, (ii) 

identify, rescue, and provide support to 

children who have been sexually 

victimized, (iii) provide some 

transparency and accountability 

concerning the online harms children 

face every day, and (iv) undertake 

education and prevention efforts to help 

children avoid becoming victims of 

sexual exploitation. 31 The National 

Institutes of Health, in accordance with 

the CAMRA Act, supports biomedical 

and behavioral science research to study 

the health impacts of digital media 

exposure on youth, which may include 

the positive and negative effects of 

exposure to and use of media, (such as 

social media, applications, websites), to 

better understand the relationships 

between media and technology use and 

individual differences and 

characteristics of children and to assess 

the impact of media on youth over 

time.32

All around the world, nation-states, 

civil society organizations, and 

researchers are working to determine 

how best to keep children and teens safe 

while maximizing the benefits of social 

media and other online platforms.33 For 

example, the United Kingdom’s ageappropriate design codes incorporate 

such elements as prohibiting the use of 

techniques to manipulate minors into 

agreeing to give up some privacy.34

Parents, guardians, caregivers and 

advocates for youth have taken up the 

mantle.35 In addition, researchers across 

a range of disciplines have identified 

methods and approaches to embedding 

and respecting societal values through 

the design, deployment, configuration, 

and regulation of technical systems.36 In 

particular, researchers developed 

methods and tools to identify and define 

such values and account for potential 

harms, including physical and mental 

health concerns arising from design 

choices, and those efforts are relevant to 

children’s wellbeing.37 Businesses and 

associations, including those in the 

technology sector, have taken some 

steps to assess and address these 

problems.38 For example, as the UK’s 

age-appropriate design laws took effect, 

TikTok turned off nighttime 

notifications for children.39 Other 

companies offer age-verification tools, 

parental controls,40 and/or guidance for 

parents and guardians seeking to protect 

minors online.41 YouTube offers a 

separate application for children under 

13, which allows parents to limit 

minors’ screen time and disable some 

search capabilities.42 Industry can, 

however, do more to protect American 

children and teens online. Reports and 

recommendations focused on youth 

social media and online platforms often 

include recommendations for the tech 

sector.43 The Surgeon General’s 

Advisory included requests for more 

access to tech companies’ data for 

health research and urged these 

companies to develop ‘‘platforms, 

products, and tools that foster safe and 

healthy online environments for youth, 

keeping in mind the needs of girls, 

racial, ethnic, and sexual and gender 

minorities.’’ 44

II. Objectives of This Notice 

This Notice offers an opportunity for 

all interested parties to provide vital 

input and recommendations for 

consideration in the Task Force’s work. 


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45As the Instructions note, this Request for 

Comment seeks to supplement work that has 

already been done in this area, rather than repeat 

it, and to draw out the works or ideas that might 

be useful for discussion. Including references to 

existing work is helpful. 

NTIA seeks public input and feedback 

from a wide array of stakeholders, 

including parents, guardians and 

caregivers; educators and 

administrators; scientists and 

technologists; youth advocates; 

regulators and law enforcement; civil 

advocates and those in the advertising 

and business communities, including 

influencers and those involved with 

social media and online platforms; 

experts on relevant medical, legal, and 

other matters pertinent to the Task 

Force’s mandate; and other interested 

parties. This input will inform the Task 

Force’s recommendations and future 

work. 

III. Instructions for Commenters 

NTIA welcomes input on any matter 

that commenters believe is important to 

the Kids Online Health and Safety Task 

Force’s efforts to review how use of, and 

exposure to, social media and other 

online platforms impact the health and 

well-being (including safety and 

privacy) of youth. Further, NTIA seeks 

feedback on current industry practices, 

and ways that the private sector, parents 

and guardians, the U.S. government, 

and any other party might improve the 

current status quo. 

Commenters are invited to comment 

on the full range of issues presented by 

this RFC and are encouraged to address 

any or all of the following questions, or 

to provide additional information 

relevant to the Task Force. As noted 

above, much work has been done in 

specific areas identified below. This 

Request for Comment seeks to 

supplement that work, rather than 

repeat it, and to draw out the works or 

ideas that might be useful for 

discussion. 

This request particularly welcomes 

comment providing or advancing 

thinking as to: (1) identification of the 

health, safety and privacy risks and 

benefits for minors from the use of 

online platforms and services; (2) 

information on the status of industry 

efforts and technology, (3) practical 

solutions to the specific identified 

issues, and (4) guidance to parents, 

guardians, and caregivers that is based 

upon rigorous evaluation and has been 

shown to be effective in specific, 

articulated ways. 

The term ‘‘social media and other 

online platforms’’ could encompass 

many services and technologies. These 

include, among others, platforms set up 

as social media, gaming platforms and 

interactive games (even if 

decentralized), online platforms or 

websites that host postings of video and 

other content, and even search engines 

could be viewed as advertising 

platforms. However, the relevant items 

for discussion are how the various types 

of social media and other online 

platforms are tied to minors’ safety, 

health, and privacy. Similarly, 

commenters are asked to differentiate, 

where appropriate, the categories to be 

specific about the types of social media 

and other online platforms and the 

specific types of harm they are 

describing as they discuss various 

aspects of this topic, including which 

minors that they are referencing. 

The questions below cover issues that 

could affect youth of all ages, from 

toddlers to adolescents. This Request for 

Comment is meant to be allencompassing, and the terms ‘‘minors’’ 

and ‘‘youths’’ are used in this document 

to describe people under 18 years of age. 

However, it is helpful to note with some 

specificity if particular harms or 

solutions, for example, are more 

relevant to specific demographic or age 

groups or youths with accessibility 

requirements benefit in particular (for 

example, blind youth, low-income 

youth, or youth affiliated by gender, 

sexuality, race, or religion). 

Commenters are not required to 

respond to all questions. When 

responding to one or more of the 

questions below, please note in the text 

of your response the number of the 

question to which you are responding. 

Commenters are welcome to provide 

specific actionable proposals, rationales, 

and relevant facts. Commenters should 

include a page number on each page of 

their submissions. Please note that for 

this comment, because of the volumes of 

material already available in this area, 

NTIA is requesting concise comments 

that are at most fifteen (15) singlespaced pages. Commenters are welcome 

to provide citations to other work 

detailing particular areas of concern, 

studies, or solutions. 

Please do not include in your 

comments information of a confidential 

nature, such as sensitive personal 

information or proprietary information. 

All comments received are a part of the 

public record and will generally be 

posted to Regulations.gov without 

change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address) 

voluntarily submitted by the commenter 

may be publicly accessible. Information 

obtained as a result of this notice may 

be used by the federal government for 

program planning on a non-attribution 

basis. 

Identifying Health, Safety, and Privacy 

Risks and Potential Benefits 

1. What are the current and emerging 

risks of harm to minors associated with 

social media and other online 

platforms? 

a. What harms or risks of harm do 

social media and other online platforms 

facilitate with respect to, or impose 

upon, minors? 

b. What are the specific design 

characteristics that most likely lead to 

behavior modifications leading to harms 

or risks? 

c. What information concerning 

platform safety is provided to parents, 

care givers, and children by providers? 

Where is that information found? Where 

could it be located that would provide 

the best avenue to reach parents, care 

givers, and children? 

d. For each harm or risk identified, 

please note whether imposition of such 

harm or risk is currently subject to civil 

or criminal legal sanction, and, if so, 

whether these existing legal frameworks 

adequately deter and/or penalize such 

imposition. 

e. Are these harms evenly distributed? 

Or do they accrue disproportionately to 

certain demographic or age groups or 

youths with accessibility requirements 

(for example, based on gender, 

sexuality, age, race, or religion)? 

f. Is the likelihood of these harms 

enhanced, facilitated, incentivized, 

created, or alleviated by technical 

design characteristics, business 

arrangements, or other contingent 

factors? 

g. Conversely, are the factors that 

facilitate harms and risks in this area 

inherent in social media and other 

online platforms’ offerings? 

h. Do specific applications of artificial 

intelligence and/or other emerging 

technologies exacerbate or help alleviate 

certain harms or risks of harm in this 

area? If so, which and how? 

2. Are there particular market 

conditions or incentives built into the 

market structure that enhance or deter 

benefits and/or harms that should be 

addressed and/or encouraged? 

3. What are the current and emerging 

health and other benefits—or potential 

benefits—to minors associated with 

social media and other online platforms 

(including to physical, cognitive, 

mental, and socio-emotional wellbeing)? 45

a. Are these benefits generally 

available to most minors? Do minors in 

specific demographic or age groups or 

youths with accessibility requirements 

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religion)? 

b. Is there a particularly sensitive 

developmental period during which 

minors are more likely to obtain certain 

benefits? 

4. Do particular technical design 

characteristics, business arrangements, 

or other contingent factors for some 

online platforms allow for or enhance 

the benefits referenced in Question 3? 

a. Are those characteristics or factors 

inherent in social media and other 

online platforms’ offerings? 

b. Conversely, are there particular 

characteristics or factors that impede 

access to the beneficial aspects of social 

media and other online platforms? Are 

there barriers to making design elements 

available across multiple platforms? 

5. Are there ways that young people 

have been or could be involved in 

making improvements to the health and 

safety of online platforms including 

social media that you think should be 

encouraged? 

a. What are best practices in youth 

involvement in making improvements 

to the design and use of online 

platforms including social media? What 

roles did youth play? What roles did 

adults play? What has been the impact 

of these efforts? 

b. What suggestions do you have for 

youth involvement in making 

improvements to online platforms 

including social media? Please be as 

specific as possible. 

The Status of Current Practices 

6. What practices and technologies do 

social media and other online platform 

providers employ today that exert a 

significant positive or negative effect on 

minors’ health, safety, and privacy? 

a. What practices and technologies do 

specific social media and other online 

platform providers employ today for 

assessing, preventing, and mitigating 

harms? What specific practices for being 

especially effective or ineffective? 

b. Do the practices referenced in 

Queston [5a] impose unintended 

consequences? If so, what are they, and 

how can they be mitigated? 

c. Have the practices of social media 

and other online platforms evolved over 

time to enhance or undercut minors’ 

health and safety, including their 

privacy, in ways that should be taken 

into account for future efforts? If so, 

how? For example, what factors have 

been significant in shaping any such 

evolution that are likely to have similar 

bearing on the future of industry 

practices? 

d. What are the relative roles played 

by shifts in norms, business and 

economic circumstances, legal 

mandates, scientific and social scientific 

consensus, and/or other relevant 

factors? Which of these factors shape 

practices the most and how? 

7. What is the impact of dark patterns 

or design on minors’ health and safety, 

including their privacy (for example, 

being addictive, extended online use, 

making wrong decisions, or taking 

incorrect actions)? 

8. Do platform providers’ practices or 

technologies disproportionately benefit 

or harm certain specific demographic or 

age groups or youths with accessibility 

requirements benefit in particular (for 

example, blind youth, low-income 

youth, or youth affiliated by gender, 

sexuality, race, or religion)? How should 

that be factored into any best practices 

and/or other recommendations that this 

Task Force might explore? 

9. Do the practices currently 

employed by social media and other 

online platforms of relevance to this 

inquiry differ materially between 

organizations and entities or are they 

similar? If they are different what is the 

source of the disparities? If they mirror 

one another, what is the source of the 

similarities? For example, do differences 

and similarities stem principally from 

various business models, legal 

frameworks, commonly used 

technologies, key decision-makers, or 

other factors? 

10. Among the practices currently 

employed by social media and other 

online platforms, which ones best 

maximize benefits to minors’ health, 

safety, and/or privacy while minimizing 

the risk or imposition of harm? How do 

they do so? 

a. Could these practices be adopted, 

in whole or in part, by other platforms? 

b. What modifications, if any, would 

be required before they could be 

adopted by other platforms? 

c. What are the most significant 

barriers to adoption and implementation 

of such practices by other platforms, 

and what are the most significant 

incentives for other platforms to adopt 

these practices? 

d. How do these practices work in 

concert with other practices to protect 

and advance minors’ online health, 

safety, and/or privacy? 

11. Are there potential best practices 

(for example, practices related to design, 

testing, or configuration) or policies that 

are not currently employed by social 

media and other online platforms that 

should be considered? 

12. How can such policies or best 

practices be best tailored in the future 

to different ages and stages of a child’s 

emotional and cognitive development? 

Identifying Technical Barriers to, and 

Enablers of, Kids’ Online Health, 

Safety, and Privacy 

13. Are there technical design choices 

employed by specific social media 

platforms and other online platforms or 

supported by research that should be 

adopted by other social media and other 

online platforms to advance minors’ 

health, safety, and/or privacy online? 

a. If so, what are the best ways to 

promote or ensure adoption of such 

practices? 

b. Are new entrants able to offer 

innovation in this area or are there 

barriers (for example, relating to 

interoperability demands or the need for 

scale) that hamper such innovation? 

14. Are there technical tools or 

supports that could be used by 

platforms to improve minors’ health, 

safety, and/or privacy online, whether 

or not they are in use today? 

a. What technical options or tools 

could be used to advance minors’ 

health, safety, and/or privacy online? If 

available, why have they not previously 

been offered or facilitated by social 

media and/or other online platform 

providers? For example, are there 

factors other than health and safety at 

issue, or are there concerns about the 

effect on access to information? 

b. What steps, if any, must be taken 

to facilitate platform providers’ 

expanded use of technical solutions to 

improve minors’ online health, safety, 

and/or privacy? 

15. Are there technical options that 

could assist parents, guardians, 

caregivers, and minors by reducing 

potential for harm and/or increasing 

potential for beneficial aspects of social 

media and other online platforms? 

Identifying Proposed Guidance and/or 

Policies 

16. What guidance, if any, should the 

United States government issue to 

advance minors’ health, safety, and/or 

privacy online? 

a. What guidance, if any, might assist 

parents, guardians, caregivers and 

others in protecting the health, safety, 

and privacy of minors who use online 

platforms, including possible tools, their 

usage and potential drawbacks? 

b. What type of guidance, if any, 

might be offered to social media or other 

online platforms either generally or to 

specific categories of such? 

c. What are the benefits or downsides 

of the U.S. government offering such 

guidance, and which agencies or offices 

within the government are best 

positioned to do so? 

d. How best can we ensure that such 

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consensus of experts across relevant 

fields, including the mental health and 

medical community, technical experts, 

child development experts, parents and 

caregiver groups, and other stakeholders 

dedicated to advancing the interests of 

minors, and so on? 

e. How best can the U.S. government 

encourage compliance with any 

guidance issued to advance minors’ 

health, safety, and/or privacy online? 

17. What policy actions could be 

taken, whether by the U.S. Congress, 

federal agencies, enforcement 

authorities, or other actors, to advance 

minors’ online health, safety, and/or 

privacy? What specific regulatory areas 

of focus would advance protections? 

18. How best can the U.S. government 

establish long-term partnerships with 

social media and other online platform 

providers to ensure that evolving needs 

with respect to minors’ online health, 

safety, and/or privacy are addressed as 

quickly as possible? 

Identifying Unique Needs of Specific 

Communities 

19. With respect to any of the 

questions posed above, are there ways 

in which the response would be 

different for specific demographic or age 

groups or youths with accessibility 

requirements (for example, blind youth, 

low-income youth, or youth affiliated by 

gender, sexuality, race, or religion)? If 

so, how? 

Reliable Sources of Concrete 

Information 

20. What are the best sources of 

scientifically sound evidence that 

should be consulted in any review of 

this topic, including those about 

benefits, risks, harms, and best practices 

with respect to social media and other 

online offerings? 

a. In particular, what are the best 

sources for information regarding the 

relationship between platform 

providers’ practices and minors’ health, 

safety, and/or privacy? 

b. Would it be helpful to have a 

particular trusted source for relevant 

information in this area? For example, 

would it be helpful if resources were 

provided by a medical association or a 

special government office? 

c. What are the most effective ways 

for platforms to gather and provide 

useful information through transparency 

reports or audits related to online harms 

to the health, safety, and/or privacy of 

youth? 

21. What scientifically sound 

evidence regarding the matters raised in 

this Request for Comment is lacking? 

What guidance that is not currently 

available would an expert expect or 

want for research? 

a. What are areas we have not 

included here that are important for 

developing a research agenda regarding 

online harms and health benefits to 

minors? 

22. Should platforms provide more 

data to researchers and, if so, what 

would that kind of data sharing look 

like, what kind of data would be most 

useful, how would it account for the 

privacy of users, and what are the best 

models for sharing data, while also 

safeguarding users and their privacy? 

Additional Material 

NTIA welcomes any additional input 

that stakeholders believe will prove 

useful to our efforts. 

Dated: September 26, 2023. 

Stephanie Weiner, 

Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications 

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