The legislation includes measures regarding age verification, minors’ access to sexually explicit material, limits on “design features that result in compulsive usage,” and tools enabling parents to view the total time their child spends on a platform. Experts agree that parents will continue to play a central role in keeping kids safe. Critics also worry about how platforms would verify users’ ages. Because companies would first need to determine who is and isn’t a minor, they may end up collecting sensitive information from all users, Odgers says, and not aways being able to protect it.