Sec. 9. Age verification study and report
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The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and the Secretary of Commerce, shall conduct a study evaluating the most technologically feasible methods and options for developing systems to verify age at the device or operating system level. Such study shall consider — the benefits of creating a device or operating system level age verification system; what information may need to be collected to create this type of age verification system; the accuracy of such systems and their impact or steps to improve accessibility, including for individuals with disabilities; how such a system or systems could verify age while mitigating risks to user privacy and data security and safeguarding minors' personal data, emphasizing minimizing the amount of data collected and processed by covered platforms and age verification providers for such a system; and the technical feasibility, including the need for potential hardware and software changes, including for devices currently in commerce and owned by consumers.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the agencies described in subsection
(a)shall submit a report containing the results of the study conducted under such subsection to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.