Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
What is Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)?
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) establishes a duty of care for covered online platforms to prevent and mitigate harms to minors. It requires platforms to provide safeguards for minors by default, give minors and parents tools to protect against harmful content, and requires the FTC to establish best practices. It comprises 8 controls organised across 8 domains, and applies in the United States.
How Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) maps to other frameworks
All 8 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 8 domains Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). The number is how many Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Barbados Data Protection Act 2019
3 shared controlsFlorida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR)
3 shared controlsVermont Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Data Act (AICDA)
2 shared controlsUSMCA Chapter 19 - Digital Trade (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)
2 shared controlsTEFCA - Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
2 shared controlsRhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA)
2 shared controlsRussia Federal Law on Personal Data (152-FZ)
2 shared controlsPrivacy Act 1988 (Australia)
2 shared controlsWhere Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
One course in the catalogue covers Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
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What an auditor will ask you for
All 8 Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
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Questions people ask about Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
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Query Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) programmatically
Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), its 8 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) API reference and MCP config →What Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- KOSA-PARENTAL-TOOLS-SECTION5-NOTIFICATION-CONTROL-ACCOUNT-PRIVACY-TIME-SPENDING-LIMITS-MINOR-ACCOUNT-IDENTIFICATION KOSA Parental Tools + Section 5 + Notification + Control + Account Privacy + Time + Spending Limits + Minor Account Identification + Parental Override + Confirmation + Linked Accounts + Reasonable Tools
- KOSA-RESEARCHER-ACCESS-SECTION7-QUALIFIED-RESEARCHERS-PUBLIC-INTEREST-RESEARCH-APPROVAL-PROCESS-DATA-SHARING-PROTECTIONS KOSA Researcher Access + Section 7 + Qualified Researchers + Public Interest Research + Approval Process + Data Sharing + Privacy Protections + Methodology Standards + Public Reporting + Academic + Civil Society + Government Researchers
- KOSA-TRANSPARENCY-REPORTING-SECTION6-ANNUAL-DISCLOSURE-RISK-ASSESSMENT-INDEPENDENT-AUDIT-RESEARCHER-ACCESS-PUBLIC-REPORT KOSA Transparency Reporting + Section 6 + Annual Public Disclosure + Risk Assessment Findings + Independent Audit Results + Researcher Access Reports + Public Report + Reporting Mechanism Statistics + Content Moderation Metrics + Algorithmic Disclosure
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