(3) prevent, detect, protect against, or respond 
to security incidents, identity theft, fraud, harass-
ment, malicious or deceptive activities, or any illegal 
activity; preserve the integrity or security of sys-
tems; or investigate, report, or prosecute those re-
sponsible for any such action; or 
(4) investigate, establish, exercise, respond to, 
or defend against legal claims. 
(d) APPLICATION
TO
VIDEO
STREAMING
SERV-
ICES.—A video streaming service shall be deemed to be 
in compliance with this Act if it predominantly consists 
of news, sports, entertainment, or other video program-
ming content that is preselected by the provider and not 
user-generated, and— 
(1) 
any 
chat, 
comment, 
or 
interactive 
functionality is provided incidental to, directly re-
lated to, or dependent on provision of such content; 
(2) if such video streaming service requires ac-
count owner registration and is not predominantly 
news or sports, the service includes the capability— 
(A) to limit a minor’s access to the service, 
which may utilize a system of age-rating; 
(B) to limit the automatic playing of on- 
demand content selected by a personalized rec-
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ommendation system for an individual that the 
service knows is a minor; 
(C) to provide an individual that the serv-
ice knows is a minor with readily accessible and 
easy-to-use options to delete an account held by 
the minor on the service, or, in the case of a 
service that allows a parent to create a profile 
for a minor, to allow a parent to delete the mi-
nor’s profile; 
(D) for a parent to manage a minor’s ac-
count settings, and restrict purchases and fi-
nancial transactions by a minor, where applica-
ble; 
(E) to provide an electronic point of con-
tact specific to matters described in this para-
graph; 
(F) to offer a clear, conspicuous, and easy- 
to-understand notice of its policies and prac-
tices with respect the capabilities described in 
this paragraph; and 
(G) when providing on-demand content, to 
employ measures that safeguard against serving 
advertising for narcotic drugs (as defined in 
section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 802)), tobacco products, gambling, 
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or alcohol directly to the account or profile of 
an individual that the service knows is a minor. 
SEC. 114. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this title, or an amendment made 
by this title, is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, 
the remaining provisions of this title and the amendments 
made by this title shall not be affected. 
TITLE II—FILTER BUBBLE 
TRANSPARENCY 
SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) 
ALGORITHMIC
RANKING
SYSTEM.—The 
term ‘‘algorithmic ranking system’’ means a com-
putational process, including one derived from algo-
rithmic decision-making, machine learning, statis-
tical analysis, or other data processing or artificial 
intelligence techniques, used to determine the selec-
tion, order, relative prioritization, or relative promi-
nence of content from a set of information that is 
provided to a user on an online platform, including 
the ranking of search results, the provision of con-
tent recommendations, the display of social media 
posts, or any other method of automated content se-
lection. 
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(2) APPROXIMATE
GEOLOCATION
INFORMA-
TION.—The term ‘‘approximate geolocation informa-
tion’’ means information that identifies the location 
of an individual, but with a precision of less than 5 
miles. 
(3) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(4) 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. 
(5) INPUT-TRANSPARENT ALGORITHM.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘input-trans-
parent algorithm’’ means an algorithmic rank-
ing system that does not use the user-specific 
data of a user to determine the selection, order, 
relative prioritization, or relative prominence of 
information that is furnished to such user on 
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an online platform, unless the user-specific data 
is expressly provided to the platform by the 
user for such purpose. 
(B) DATA EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE 
PLATFORM.—For purposes of subparagraph 
(A), user-specific data that is provided by a 
user for the express purpose of determining the 
selection, order, relative prioritization, or rel-
ative prominence of information that is fur-
nished to such user on an online platform— 
(i) shall include user-supplied search 
terms, filters, speech patterns (if provided 
for the purpose of enabling the platform to 
accept spoken input or selecting the lan-
guage in which the user interacts with the 
platform), saved preferences, the resump-
tion of a previous search, and the current 
precise geolocation information that is sup-
plied by the user; 
(ii) shall include the user’s current ap-
proximate geolocation information; 
(iii) shall include data submitted to 
the platform by the user that expresses the 
user’s desire to receive particular informa-
tion, such as the social media profiles the 
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