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10/ Parental Consent: KOSA §5 requires services to provide notices to a parent of any user under 17, and obtain an acknowledgment from the parent, before the minor uses the service.

This might make sense for young kids, but it burdens the First Amendment rights of older teens.

Congress removed very similar requirements from COPPA, the 1998 kids privacy law, after the Center for Democracy & Technology explained the implications for teens of being able to access sensitive information.