Oregon
Oregon has no adult content age verification law. A bill that would have required age verification for websites where a substantial share of content is sexual material harmful to minors (HB 2032) died when the 2025 session adjourned on June 27, 2025, and an app store age verification bill (HB 3696) died in House committee at the same adjournment; the short 2026 session, which adjourned March 6, 2026, enacted nothing in the four tracked families. Oregon has no social media specific minor access law. Its age gating protection instead runs through its comprehensive privacy law: a 2025 amendment to the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (HB 2008) bars selling the personal data of, serving targeted advertising to, or profiling a consumer the controller knows or willfully disregards is under 16, in effect since January 1, 2026.
Subnational jurisdiction. Reviewed 2026-07-15.
HB 2008, Oregon Consumer Privacy Act minors and geolocation amendments
Bars a controller that has actual knowledge that, or willfully disregards whether, a consumer is under 16 from selling that consumer's personal data, using it for targeted advertising, or profiling in furtherance of decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, with no consent exception, and separately bars selling personal data that identifies a consumer's location within a 1,750 foot radius. Signed by Governor Kotek on June 3, 2025.
- Citation
- Or. Rev. Stat. section 646A.578 (2025 Or. Laws ch. 251)
- Status
- In force
- Effective date
- 2026-01-01
- Applies to
- Private sector
- Age threshold
- 16
- Covered services
- Controllers subject to the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act processing data of a consumer known, or willfully disregarded, to be under 16
- Penalties
- Enforced exclusively by the Attorney General under ORS 646A.589, with civil penalties of up to $7,500 per violation; the statute expressly creates no private right of action, and its 30 day cure period sunset on January 1, 2026
- Enforcement body
- Oregon Department of Justice
- Private right of action
- no
- Source
- Or. Rev. Stat. section 646A.578 (2025 Or. Laws ch. 251)
Reviewed 2026-07-15. Confidence: high. Fast-moving area, verify before relying. Not legal advice.