I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6292 
To prohibit data brokers from collecting, using, or maintaining the personal 
data of certain minors, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 25, 2025 
Mr. PALLONE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To prohibit data brokers from collecting, using, or maintain-
ing the personal data of certain minors, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Don’t Sell Kids’ Data 
Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DATA BROKERS WITH RESPECT 
TO THE PERSONAL DATA OF CERTAIN MI-
NORS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—An entity acting as a data 
broker may not carry out the following: 
(A) Collect, use, or maintain any personal 
data of an individual the data broker knows is 
a child or teen. 
(B) Sell, license, rent, trade, transfer, re-
lease, disclose, provide access to, or otherwise 
make available any personal data of an indi-
vidual the data broker knows is a child or teen. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—An entity acting as a data 
broker may collect, use, or maintain only such per-
sonal data of an individual that the data broker 
knows is a child or teen that is necessary to ensure 
compliance with paragraph (1)(A) or subsection (b) 
and shall not collect, use, or maintain such personal 
data for any other purpose than for such compli-
ance. 
(b) DELETION OF PERSONAL DATA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—An entity acting as a data 
broker shall— 
(A) delete any personal data of an indi-
vidual the data broker knows is a child or teen 
that the data broker maintained; and 
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(B) establish a mechanism for any of the 
following individuals to submit a request to the 
data broker to delete any such personal data: 
(i) Teen. 
(ii) The parent or legal guardian of a 
child. 
(iii) An agent acting at the request of 
a teen or the parent or legal guardian of 
a child. 
(2) PROCESS.—Not later than 10 days after the 
date on which a teen, the parent or legal guardian 
of a child, or an agent acting at the request of a 
teen or the parent or legal guardian of a child sub-
mits a request pursuant to the mechanism estab-
lished pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), the data 
broker shall carry out the following responsibilities: 
(A) Identify any personal data of the child 
or teen that the data broker collected, used, or 
maintained. 
(B) Delete any personal data identified 
under subparagraph (A). 
(C) Notify the individual who submitted 
the request of the deletion under subparagraph 
(B) upon completion. 
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(3) NOTICE.—A data broker shall make pub-
licly available (such as on a website of the data 
broker), in a clear and conspicuous manner, infor-
mation written in plain language and relating to the 
following: 
(A) The mechanism established by the 
data broker under paragraph (1)(B). 
(B) The responsibilities of the data broker 
under paragraph (2). 
(c) ENFORCEMENT BY COMMISSION.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of this Act shall be treated as 
a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive 
act or practice under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Fed-
eral 
Trade 
Commission 
Act 
(15 
U.S.C. 
57a(a)(1)(B)). 
(2) POWERS OF COMMISSION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
enforce this Act in the same manner, by the 
same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 
powers, and duties as though all applicable 
terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were in-
corporated into and made a part of this Act. 
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(B) PRIVILEGES
AND
IMMUNITIES.—Any 
entity who violates this Act shall be subject to 
the penalties and entitled to the privileges and 
immunities provided in the Federal Trade Com-
mission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 
(C) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in 
this Act may be construed to limit the authority 
of the Commission under any other provision of 
law. 
(d) ENFORCEMENT BY STATES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In any case in which the at-
torney general of a State, or an official or agency of 
a State, has reason to believe that an interest of the 
residents of such State has been or is threatened or 
adversely affected by an act or practice in violation 
of this Act, the State, as parens patriae, may bring 
a civil action on behalf of the residents of the State 
in an appropriate district court of the United States 
to— 
(A) enjoin such act or practice; 
(B) enforce compliance with such sub-
section; 
(C) obtain damages, restitution, or other 
compensation on behalf of residents of the 
State; or 
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(B) LIMITATION ON STATE ACTION WHILE 
FEDERAL ACTION IS PENDING.—If the Commis-
sion or the Attorney General of the United 
States has instituted a civil action for violation 
of this Act (referred to in this subparagraph as 
the ‘‘Federal action’’), no State attorney gen-
eral, official, or agency may bring an action 
under this subsection during the pendency of 
the Federal action against any defendant 
named in the complaint in the Federal action 
for any violation of such subsection alleged in 
such complaint. 
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For purposes of 
bringing a civil action under this subsection, nothing 
in this Act shall be construed to prevent an attorney 
general, official, or agency of a State from exercising 
the powers conferred on the attorney general, offi-
cial, or agency by the laws of such State to conduct 
investigations, administer oaths and affirmations, or 
compel the attendance of witnesses or the production 
of documentary and other evidence. 
(5) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Nothing in this sub-
section may be construed to prohibit an authorized 
official of a State from initiating or continuing any 
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proceeding in a court of the State for a violation of 
any civil or criminal law of the State. 
(e) ENFORCEMENT BY PERSONS.— 
(1) CIVIL ACTION.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—An individual may 
bring a civil action against a data broker for a 
violation of this Act related to the personal data 
of that individual in an appropriate Federal dis-
trict court of the United States. 
(B) INJURY IN FACT.—A violation of this 
Act related to the personal data of an individual 
constitutes a concrete and particularized injury 
in fact for that individual. 
(2) RELIEF.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—In a civil action 
brought under paragraph (1) in which the 
plaintiff prevails, the court may award the 
plaintiff— 
(i) an amount equal to the sum of any 
actual damages, but not less than $1,000 
for each violation of this Act; 
(ii) injunctive relief; 
(iii) declaratory relief; and 
(iv) reasonable attorney fees and liti-
gation costs. 
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(B) WILLFUL VIOLATIONS.—If the court 
finds that the defendant willfully or knowingly 
violated this Act, the court may, in its discre-
tion, increase the amount of the award to an 
amount equal to not more than 3 times the 
amount available under subparagraph (A) of 
this paragraph. 
(3) COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES.—The court 
shall award to a prevailing plaintiff in an action 
under this subsection the costs of such action and 
reasonable attorney’s fees, as determined by the 
court. 
(4) WAIVER OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.—The 
rights and remedies provided by this subsection may 
not be waived by any terms of service, including by 
a predispute arbitration agreement. 
(5) NONEXCLUSIVE REMEDY.—The remedy pro-
vided by this subsection shall be in addition to any 
other remedy available to the person. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take effect on 
the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) CHILD.—The term ‘‘child’’ means an indi-
vidual under the age of 13 years. 
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(2) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(3) DATA BROKER.— 
(A) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
term 
‘‘data 
broker’’ means an entity that, for valuable con-
sideration, sells, licenses, rents, trades, trans-
fers, releases, discloses, provides access to, or 
otherwise makes available to another entity per-
sonal data of an individual that the entity did 
not collect directly from such individual. 
(B) EXCEPTION.—The term ‘‘data broker’’ 
does not include an entity to the extent the en-
tity— 
(i) acts as a service provider; 
(ii) provides, maintains, or offers a 
product or service with respect to which 
personal data, or access to such data, is 
not the product or service; 
(iii) transmits personal data of an in-
dividual, including any communication of 
such individual, at the request or direction 
of such individual; or 
(iv) reports or publishes news or in-
formation that concerns local, national, or 
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international events or other matters of 
public interest. 
(4) KNOWS.—The term ‘‘knows’’ means to have 
actual knowledge or knowledge fairly implied on the 
basis of objective circumstances. 
(5) PERSONAL
DATA.—The term ‘‘personal 
data’’— 
(A) means information that identifies or is 
linked or reasonably linkable, alone or in com-
bination with other information, to an indi-
vidual or a device that identifies is linked or 
reasonably linkable to an individual; and 
(B) includes derived data and unique per-
sistent identifiers. 
(6) SERVICE
PROVIDER.—The term ‘‘service 
provider’’ means an entity that collects, processes, or 
transfers personal data on behalf of, and at the di-
rection of— 
(A) the individual to whom such informa-
tion pertains; 
(B) the parent or legal guardian of the in-
dividual to whom such information pertains; 
(C) a Federal, State, or local government 
entity; or 
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(D) another entity acting at the direction 
of an individual or entity described in subpara-
graph (A), (B), or (C). 
(7) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
each territory or possession of the United States, 
and each federally recognized Indian Tribe. 
(8) TEEN.—The term ‘‘teen’’ means an indi-
vidual who has attained age 13 years and is under 
the age of 18 years. 
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