Legislation

* § 1522. Display requirements and restrictions. 1. For each calendar
day in which a covered user accesses an addictive feature platform
providing an addictive feature to the covered user, the covered operator
shall display the warning label described in section fifteen hundred
twenty-one of this article to the covered user when such user initially
accesses the platform and an addictive feature is provided. The warning
label shall be displayed clearly, conspicuously and continuously for at
least ten seconds, without providing the ability to bypass or click
through the warning. Such warning label shall be displayed in a manner
that occupies at least twenty-five percent of the screen or window that
the covered user is using to access the addictive feature platform.

2. For each calendar day in which a covered user uses an addictive
feature platform that provides an addictive feature to the covered user,
the covered operator shall display the warning label described in
section fifteen hundred twenty-one of this article to the covered user
after three hours of cumulative active use and thereafter at least once
per hour of cumulative active use. The warning label shall be displayed
clearly, conspicuously and continuously for a duration of at least
thirty seconds, without providing the ability to bypass or click through
the warning, in a manner that occupies at least seventy-five percent of
the screen the covered user is using to access the addictive feature
platform.

3. A covered operator shall be prohibited from:

(a) Including a warning label exclusively in the terms of service of
an addictive feature platform;

(b) Obscuring the visibility or prominence of a warning label; and

(c) Deploying any other design feature or mechanism which
intentionally serves to inhibit or subvert the purpose of this article.

* NB Effective January 1, 2027