Connecticut
Connecticut has no adult content age verification, app store, or design code law. Its 2023 privacy law amendments (SB 3, Public Act 23-56) give minors under 18 the right to have social media accounts unpublished or deleted and require reasonable care and data protection assessments for services offered to known minors, in effect since 2024. In 2026 the state enacted SB 5 (Public Act 26-15), an omnibus online safety and artificial intelligence act whose social media provisions, effective January 1, 2028, require age determination and parental consent before minors may use personalized algorithmic feeds, restrict notification hours, and set protective defaults including a one hour per day feed limit. A narrower 2025 bill with similar provisions (HB 6857) passed the House 121 to 26 but died without a Senate vote.
Subnational jurisdiction. Reviewed 2026-07-15.
SB 3 (2023), online privacy, data and safety protections for minors
Amends the Connecticut Data Privacy Act so social media platforms must honor a minor's request to unpublish or delete their account (effective July 1, 2024), and requires controllers offering services to known minors under 18 to use reasonable care against heightened risk of harm, including limits on targeted advertising, certain profiling, and precise geolocation collection (effective October 1, 2024).
- Citation
- Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 743jj (Public Act 23-56)
- Status
- In force
- Effective date
- 2024-07-01
- Applies to
- Private sector
- Age threshold
- 18
- Penalties
- Enforced solely as an unfair trade practice by the Attorney General.
- Enforcement body
- Connecticut Attorney General
- Private right of action
- no
- Source
- Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 743jj (Public Act 23-56)
SB 5 (2026), An Act Concerning Online Safety, social media protections for minors
Part of a 39 section omnibus online safety and artificial intelligence act signed June 2, 2026. Section 39 bars covered platforms from showing a user personalized algorithmic recommendations unless the operator uses commercially reasonable and technically feasible methods to determine the user is not a minor under 18, or obtains verifiable parental consent for a minor; bars notifications to minors between 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. absent parental consent; requires protective defaults for minor accounts including a one hour per day limit on algorithmic feeds; requires deletion of age determination data; and requires annual public disclosures.
- Citation
- Public Act No. 26-15, Sec. 39 (2026)
- Status
- Enacted, not yet in force
- Effective date
- 2028-01-01
- Applies to
- Private sector
- Age threshold
- 18
- Verification methods
- parental consent, third party service
- Penalties
- Enforced solely by the Attorney General as an unfair trade practice; no private right of action.
- Enforcement body
- Connecticut Attorney General
- Private right of action
- no
- Source
- Public Act No. 26-15, Sec. 39 (2026)
Reviewed 2026-07-15. Confidence: high. Fast-moving area, verify before relying. Not legal advice.