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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6253 
To require online platforms to disclose policies and provide options relating 
to personalized recommendations systems to minors, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Mrs. CAMMACK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require online platforms to disclose policies and provide 
options relating to personalized recommendations systems 
to 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 ‘‘Algorithmic Trans-
parency and Choice Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NOTICE AND ALGORITHM PREFERENCE REQUIRE-
MENTS FOR COVERED ONLINE PLATFORMS 
TO PROVIDE TO MINORS. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—Beginning on the date that is 
1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
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provider of a covered online platform shall do the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Provide covered users of the platform with 
the following: 
(A) A notice that the platform uses a per-
sonalized recommendation system to select the 
content the covered user sees, presented in a 
clear and conspicuous manner on the platform 
whenever the covered user interacts with a per-
sonalized recommendation system for the first 
time. 
(B) A notice, included in the terms and 
conditions of the platform, in a clear, accessible, 
and easily comprehensible manner that is up-
dated whenever the platform makes a material 
change, that includes the following: 
(i) A description of any feature, input, 
and parameter essential to the operation of 
the personalized recommendation system. 
(ii) How any user-specific data used 
by the personalized recommendation sys-
tem is collected or inferred about a covered 
user of the platform and each category of 
such data. 
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(iii) Any option that the platform 
makes available for a covered user of the 
platform to opt out or exercise an option 
under subparagraph (C) or (D), modify the 
profile of the covered user, or to influence 
any feature, input, or parameter used by 
the personalized recommendation system. 
(iv) Any quantity (such as time spent 
using a product or specific measure of en-
gagement or social interaction) that the 
personalized recommendation system is de-
signed to optimize, as well as a general de-
scription of the relative importance of each 
quantity for such ranking. 
(C) An option to easily switch between the 
personalized recommendation system and an 
input-transparent algorithm in their use of the 
platform. 
(D) An option to limit the type or category 
of recommendations from a personalized rec-
ommendation system. 
(2) Provide an input-transparent algorithm as 
the default setting for a covered user of the plat-
form. 
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(b) ENFORCEMENT BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMIS-
SION.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of this section shall be treated 
as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or decep-
tive act or practice prescribed under section 
18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
(15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). 
(2) POWERS OF COMMISSION.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Federal Trade 
Commission shall enforce this section 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 Fed-
eral Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et 
seq.) were incorporated into and made a part of 
this section. 
(B) PRIVILEGES
AND
IMMUNITIES.—Any 
person who violates this section shall be subject 
to the penalties and entitled to the privileges 
and immunities provided in the Federal Trade 
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 
(C) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in 
this section shall be construed to limit the au-
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thority of the Commission under any other pro-
vision of law. 
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
(1) DISCLOSURE OF PROPRIETARY AND PRIVI-
LEGED INFORMATION PROHIBITED.—Nothing in this 
section may be construed to require a covered online 
platform to disclose any information, including data 
or any personalized recommendation system— 
(A) relating to a trade secret or other pro-
tected intellectual property; 
(B) that is confidential business informa-
tion; or 
(C) that is privileged. 
(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
section may be construed to limit or prohibit the 
ability of a covered online platform to, at the direc-
tion of a covered user or group of covered users, re-
strict another covered user from searching for, find-
ing, accessing, or interacting with the account, con-
tent, data, or online community of such covered user 
or group. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROXIMATE
GEOLOCATION
INFORMA-
TION.—The term ‘‘approximate geolocation informa-
tion’’ means information that identifies the location 
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of an individual, but with a precision of less than 5 
miles. 
(2) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(3) CONNECTED
DEVICE.—The term ‘‘con-
nected device’’ means an electronic device that— 
(A) is capable of connecting to the inter-
net, either directly or indirectly through a net-
work, to communicate information at the direc-
tion of an individual; 
(B) has computer processing capabilities 
for collecting, sending, receiving, or analyzing 
data; and 
(C) is primarily designed for or marketed 
to consumers. 
(4) COVERED ONLINE PLATFORM.—The term 
‘‘covered online platform’’ means an online platform 
that uses a personalized recommendation system. 
(5) COVERED USER.—The term ‘‘covered user’’ 
means, with respect to an online platform, a minor 
who registers an account or creates a profile on the 
covered platform. 
(6) FULLY
AUTOMATED
SYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘fully automated system’’ means an operation or set 
of operations performed on data with minimal or no 
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direction, instruction, prompting, oversight, involve-
ment, or intervention by a natural person. 
(7) INPUT-TRANSPARENT ALGORITHM.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘input-trans-
parent algorithm’’ means a fully automated sys-
tem that does not use the user-specific data of 
a covered user to determine the selection, order, 
relative prioritization, or relative prominence of 
information that is furnished to such covered 
user on an online platform, unless the user-spe-
cific data is expressly provided to the platform 
by the covered user for such purpose. 
(B) DATA EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE 
PLATFORM.—For purposes of subparagraph 
(A), user-specific data that is provided by a cov-
ered user for the express purpose of deter-
mining 
the 
selection, 
order, 
relative 
prioritization, or relative prominence of infor-
mation that is furnished to such user on an on-
line platform— 
(i) includes any search term, filter, 
and speech pattern supplied by the covered 
user (if provided for the purpose of ena-
bling the platform to accept spoken input 
or selecting the language in which the cov-
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ered user interacts with the platform), 
saved preference, the resumption of a pre-
vious search, and the current precise 
geolocation information that is supplied by 
the covered user; 
(ii) includes the current approximate 
geolocation information of the covered 
user; 
(iii) includes data affirmatively sub-
mitted to the platform by the covered user 
that expresses the clear desire of the cov-
ered user to receive particular information; 
(iv) does not include the history of the 
connected device of the covered user, in-
cluding the history of web searches and 
browsing, previous geographical locations, 
physical activity, device interaction, and fi-
nancial transactions of the covered user; 
and 
(v) does not include inferences about 
the covered user or the connected device of 
the covered user, without regard to wheth-
er such inferences are based on data de-
scribed in clauses (i) or (iii). 
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(8) MINOR.—The term ‘‘minor’’ means an indi-
vidual under the age of 18. 
(9) ONLINE
PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘online 
platform’’— 
(A) means a public-facing website, internet 
application, or mobile internet application, in-
cluding a social network, or video sharing serv-
ice— 
(i) that serves the public; and 
(ii) that primarily provides a forum 
for user-generated content, including mes-
sages, videos, images, games, and audio 
files; and 
(B) does not include— 
(i) a provider of broadband internet 
access service (as described in section 
8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, or successor regulation); or 
(ii) electronic mail. 
(10) PERSONALIZED
RECOMMENDATION
SYS-
TEM.—The term ‘‘personalized recommendation sys-
tem’’— 
(A) means a fully automated system that 
determines 
the 
selection, 
order, 
relative 
prioritization, or relative prominence of infor-
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mation that is furnished to a covered user on 
an online platform based, in whole or part, on 
user-specific data that was not expressly pro-
vided by the covered user to the platform for 
such purpose; and 
(B) does not include a fully automated sys-
tem used by an online platform if— 
(i) the only user-specific data, includ-
ing any inference about the covered user, 
that the system uses is— 
(I) information relating to the 
age of the covered user; and 
(II) such information is only used 
to fulfill a request to restrict the ac-
cess of a covered user to content on 
the basis that the content is not age- 
appropriate for the covered user; or 
(ii) such system is designed to block 
or filter spam, prevent or detect fraud or 
other illegal activity, or preserve the secu-
rity of any system, product, or service. 
(11) PRECISE
GEOLOCATION
INFORMATION.— 
The term ‘‘precise geolocation information’’ means 
geolocation information that identifies the location of 
an individual to within a range of 5 miles or less. 
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(12) USER-SPECIFIC DATA.—The term ‘‘user- 
specific data’’ means information relating to a cov-
ered user or a specific connected device that would 
not necessarily be true of every individual or device. 
(e) RELATIONSHIP TO STATE LAWS.—No State or 
political subdivision of a State may prescribe, maintain, 
or enforce any law, rule, regulation, requirement, stand-
ard, or other provision having the force and effect of law, 
if such law rule, regulation, requirement, standard, or 
other provision covers the requirements of subsection (a). 
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