Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions.
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Summary
The proposal creates three new consumer‑protection statutes. It forces businesses that offer digital products to assess and limit designs that could addict minors, sets the highest privacy defaults for under‑18 users, and requires age‑verification methods. It also gives individuals a private right to sue when their likeness is digitally replicated without consent, and it bars deceptive chatbot advertising and false claims of professional endorsement, allowing the state to bring civil actions.
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