Connecticut

Subnational jurisdiction · as of 2026-07-15

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 Its 2023 privacy law amendments (SB 3, Public Act 23-56) give minors under 18 the right to have social media accounts unpublished or deleted and require reasonable care and data protection assessments for services offered to known minors, in effect since 2024.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.

Instruments on record

SB 3 (2023), online privacy, data and safety protections for minors

In force

Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 743jj (Public Act 23-56)

Effective 2024-07-01 · Applies to private

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).

Age threshold	18
Penalties	Enforced solely as an unfair trade practice by the Attorney General.
Enforcement body	Connecticut Attorney General
Private suits	no

Source: Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 743jj (Public Act 23-56)

SB 5 (2026), An Act Concerning Online Safety, social media protections for minors

Enacted, not yet in force

Public Act No. 26-15, Sec. 39 (2026)

Effective 2028-01-01 · Applies to private

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.

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 suits	no

Source: Public Act No. 26-15, Sec. 39 (2026)