Oklahoma 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1762 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/16/2025

                             
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
HOUSE BILL 1762 	By: Kerbs 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to children; providing definitions; 
directing covered entities to complete and review 
impact assessments; requiring covere d entities to 
provide impact assessments to Attorney General; 
requiring certain default privacy settings; directing 
covered entities to publicly provide certain 
information in clear language suited to age of 
children accessing product; requiring entity pro vide 
certain tools; providing information required for 
data protection impact assessment; requiring covered 
entity act in best interest of children; clarifying 
data protection impact assessments are confidential 
and not subject to public disclosure; clarif ying 
certain information disclosed does not waive 
privilege or protection; permitting assessments that 
complies with other law; permitting single data 
protection impact assessment for similar processing 
operations; requiring first impact assessment by 
certain date; prohibiting covered entities from 
processing personal data of a chil d in way that is 
inconsistent with best interest of child; prohibiting 
covered entities from profiling a child unless listed 
exception applies; prohibiting covered entities from 
processing personal data of child that is not 
necessary to provide online product; prohibiting 
processing certain personal data for purposes other 
than reason collected; prohibiting the processing of 
certain geolocation information of children; 
prohibiting covered entities from using dark patterns 
for certain purpose; requiring cove red entity signal 
a child when being monitored or tracked; providing 
penalties for a covered entity that violates this 
act; permitting only Attorney General to initiate 
enforcement actions; directing Attorney General 
provide notice to covered entities in substantial   
 
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compliance; directing covered entities notify 
Attorney General when certain violations are cured; 
clarifying Act does not serve as basis for private 
right of action; providing list of entities this act 
does not apply to; clarifying Act does not impose 
certain liability; clarifying Act does not prevent or 
preclude a child from deliberately searching for 
content; clarifying Act does not require covered 
entity to restrict access to online products based 
solely on age; clarifying Act applies to certain 
covered entities; clarifying that Act does not apply 
to online products, services, or features not 
accessible by public after certain date; providing 
for codification; and pro viding an effective date. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8001 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
As used in this act: 
1.  "Affiliate" means a legal entity that controls, is 
controlled by or is under common control with another legal entity; 
2.  "Age-appropriate" means a recognition of the distinct needs 
and diversities of children in the following age ranges: 
a. up to five (5) years of age, 
b. six (6) to nine (9) years of age, 
c. ten (10) to twelve (12) years of age, 
d. thirteen (13) to fifteen (15) years of age, and 
e. sixteen (16) to seventeen (17) years of age;   
 
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3.  "Best interest of children " means the use, by a covered 
entity, of the personal data of a child or the design of an online 
product, service or feature in a way that: 
a. will not benefit the covered entity to the detriment 
of the child, and 
b. will not result in: 
(1) reasonably foreseeable and material physical or 
financial harm to the child, 
(2) reasonably foreseeable and severe psychological 
or emotional harm to the child, 
(3) a highly offensive intrusion on the reasonable 
privacy expectations of the c hild, or 
(4) discrimination against the child based upon race, 
color, religion, national origin, disability, sex 
or sexual orientation; 
4.  "Child" means a consumer who is under eighteen (18) years of 
age; 
5.  "Collect" means buying, renting, gathering, ob taining, 
receiving or accessing personal data pertaining to a consumer by any 
means, including receiving personal data from the consumer, either 
actively or passively, or by observing the consumer 's behavior; 
6.  "Common branding" means a shared name, serv ice mark or 
trademark that the average consumer would understand that two or 
more entities commonly own;   
 
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7.  "Consumer" means a natural person who resides in Oklahoma, 
however identified, including by a unique identifier; 
8.  "Control" or "controlled" means: 
a. ownership of or the power to vote more than fifty 
percent (50%) of the outstanding shares of any class 
of voting security of a covered entity, 
b. control in any manner over the election of a majority 
of the directors or of individuals exercising simi lar 
functions of a covered entity, or 
c. the power to exercise a controlling influence over the 
management of a covered entity; 
9.  "Covered entity" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, 
limited liability company, corporation, association, affiliate , or 
other legal entity that is organized or operated for the profit or 
financial benefit of the entity 's shareholders or other owners and 
that offers online products, services or features to individuals in 
Oklahoma and processes children 's personal data; 
10.  "Dark pattern" means a user interface designed or 
manipulated with the purpose of subverting or impairing user 
autonomy, decision making, or choice; 
11.  "Data protection impact assessment " means a systematic 
survey to assess compliance with the duty to act in the best 
interest of children;   
 
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12.  "Default" means a preselected optio n adopted by a covered 
entity for an online product, service, or feature; 
13.  "De-identified" means information that cannot reasonably be 
used to infer information about, or oth erwise be linked to, an 
identified or identifiable individual, if a covered entity that 
possesses that information: 
a. takes reasonable measures to ensure that such 
information cannot be associated with an individual, 
b. publicly commits to process such in formation only in a 
de-identified fashion and not attempt to re -identify 
such information, and 
c. contractually obligates any recipients of such 
information to satisfy the criteria set forth in this 
subsection; 
14.  "Derived data" means data that is create d by the derivation 
of information, data, assumptions, correlations, inferences, 
predictions or conclusions from facts, evidence, or another source 
of information or data about a child or a child 's device; 
15.  "Personal data" means any information, includ ing derived 
data, that is linked or reasonably linkable, alone or in combinati on 
with other information, to an identified or identifiable individual. 
Personal data does not include de -identified information or publicly 
available information;   
 
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16.  "Precise geolocation" means any data that is derived from a 
device and that is used or intended to be used to locate a consumer 
within a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a 
circle with a radius of one thousand eight hundred (1,800) feet; 
17.  "Process" or "processing" means conduct or an operation 
performed, whether b y manual or automated means, on personal data or 
on sets of personal data, such as the collection, use, storage, 
disclosure, analysis, deletion, modification or other handling of 
personal data; 
18.  "Profiling" means automated processing of personal data 
that uses personal data to evaluate certain aspects relating to a 
natural person, including analyzing or predicting aspects concerning 
a natural person's performance at work, econ omic situation, health, 
personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior , location or 
movements.  Profiling does not include the processing of data that 
does not result in an assessment or judgment about a natural person; 
19.  "Reasonably likely to b e accessed" means an online product, 
service or feature is accessed or is reasonably likely to be 
accessed by children based on any of the following indicators: 
a. the online product, service or feature is directed to 
children as defined by the federal Chi ldren's Online 
Privacy Protection Act of 1998, 
b. the online product, service or feature is determined, 
based on competent and reliable evidence regarding   
 
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audience composition, to be routinely accessed by a 
significant number of children, 
c. the online product, service or feature has 
advertisements marketed to children, 
d. the online product, service or feature is 
substantially similar or the same as an online 
product, service or feature subject to subparagraph b 
of this paragraph, 
e. a significant amount o f the audience of the online 
product, service or feature is determined, based on 
internal company research, to be children, or 
f. the covered entity knew or should have known that a 
user is a child; 
20.  "Sell" means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing , 
disseminating, making available, transferring or otherwise 
communicating orally, in writing or by electronic or other means, a 
consumer's personal data by a covered entity to a third party for 
monetary or other valuable consideration.  Sell does not include: 
a. the disclosure of personal data to a third party who 
processes the personal data on behalf of the covered 
entity, 
b. the disclosure of personal data to a third party with 
whom the consumer has a direct relationship for   
 
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purposes of providing an onli ne product, service or 
feature requested by the consumer, 
c. the disclosure or transfer of personal data to an 
affiliate of the covered entity, 
d. the disclosure of data that the consumer intentionally 
made available to the general public via a channel of 
mass media and did not restrict to a specific 
audience, or 
e. the disclosure or transfer of personal data to a third 
party as an asset that is part of the completed or 
proposed merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other 
transaction in which the third party a ssumes control 
of all or part of the covered entity 's assets; 
21.  "Sensitive personal data " means personal data that 
includes: 
a. data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious 
beliefs, mental or physical health condition or 
diagnosis, sex life, sexual orientation or citizenship 
or immigration status, 
b. the processing of geneti c or biometric data for the 
purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, or 
c. precise geolocation data; 
22.  "Share" means sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, 
disseminating, making available, transferring or otherwise   
 
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communicating orally, in writing or by electronic or other means, a 
consumer's personal data by a covered entity to a third party for 
cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or 
other valuable consideration, including transactions between a 
covered entity and a third party for cross -context behavioral 
advertising for the benefit of a covered entity in which no money is 
exchanged; and 
23.  "Third party" means a person other than the con sumer of the 
covered entity. 
SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8002 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  A covered entity sha ll: 
1.  Complete a data protection impact assessment for any online 
product, service or feature that is reasonably likely to be accessed 
and maintain documentation of the data protection impact assessment 
as long as the online product, service or feature i s reasonably 
likely to be accessed; 
2.  Review all data protection impact assessments as necessary 
to account for material changes to data processing pertaining to the 
online product, service or feature; 
3.  Within five (5) business days of a written reque st by the 
Attorney General, provide to the Attorney General a list of all data 
protection impact assessments the covered entity has completed;   
 
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4.  Within seven (7) business days of a written request by the 
Attorney General, provide a data protection impact assessment to the 
Attorney General pursuant to such a request; provided that the 
Attorney General may, in the Attorney General's discretion, extend 
the time allowed for a covered entity to produce a data protection 
impact assessment; 
5.  Configure all default privacy settings provided to children 
by the online product, service or f eature to settings that offer a 
high level of privacy, unless the covered entity can demonstrate a 
compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interest 
of children; 
6.  Publicly provide privacy information, terms of service, 
policies and community standards in a prominent, precise manner and 
use clear language suited to the age of children reasonably likely 
to access that online product, service or feature; and 
7.  Publicly provide prominent, accessible and responsive tools 
to help a child or, if applicable, the child 's parent or guardian, 
exercise the child's privacy rights and report concerns. 
B.  The data protection impact assessment required by this 
section shall identify the purpose of an online product, service or 
feature and how the online product, service or feature uses 
children's personal data and determine whether the online product, 
service or feature is designed and offered in an age -appropriate 
manner consistent with the best interest of children who are   
 
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accessing or reasonably lik ely to access the online product, service 
or feature by examining at least the following: 
1.  Whether the design of the online product, service or feature 
could lead to children experiencing or being targeted by harmful, or 
potentially harmful, contacts on the online product, service or 
feature that would be inconsistent with the best interest of 
children reasonably likely to access the online product, service or 
feature; 
2.  Whether the design of the online product, service or feature 
could permit children to witness, participate in or be subject to 
conduct on the online product, service or feature that would be 
inconsistent with the best interest of children reasonably likely to 
access the online product, service or feature; 
3.  Whether the design of the online product, service or feature 
is reasonably expected to allow children to be party to or exploited 
by a contract on the online product, service or feature; 
4.  Whether algorithms used by the online product, service or 
feature would be inconsistent with the best interest of children 
reasonably likely to access the online product, service or feature; 
5.  Whether targeted advertising systems used by the online 
product, service or feature would be inconsistent with the best 
interest of children reasonably likely to access the online product, 
service or feature;   
 
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6.  Whether the online product, service or feature uses system 
design features to increase, sustain or extend the use of t he online 
product, service or feature by children, including the automatic 
playing of media, rewards for time spent and notifications, that 
would be inconsistent with the best interest of children reasonably 
likely to access the online product, service or feature; and 
7.  Whether, how and for what purpose the online product, 
service or feature collects or processes sensitive personal data of 
children and whether those practices would be inconsistent with the 
best interest of children reasonably likely to ac cess the online 
product, service or feature. 
C.  When a covered entity identif ies an online product, service 
or feature reasonably likely to be accessed by children that may be 
inconsistent with the best interest of children, the covered entity 
shall include in a data protection impact assessment a detailed plan 
describing the steps the covered entity has taken and will take to 
ensure that the online product, service or feature will be 
consistent with the best interest of children. 
D.  A data protection imp act assessment is protected as 
confidential and shall be exempt from public di sclosure, including 
pursuant to the Oklahoma Open Records Act. 
E.  To the extent any information contained in a data protection 
impact assessment disclosed to the Attorney General includes 
information subject to attorney -client privilege or work product   
 
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protection, disclosure pursuant to subsection A of this section 
shall not constitute a waiver of that privilege or protection. 
F.  A data protection impact assessment conducted by a covered 
entity for the purpose of compliance with any other law complies 
with this section if the data protection impact assessment meets the 
requirements of this act. 
G.  A single data protection impact assessment may contain 
multiple similar processing operations that present similar risks 
only if each relevant online product, service or feature is 
addressed. 
H.  A covered entity shall complete a data protection impact 
assessment on or before January 1, 2026 , for any online product, 
service or feature t hat is reasonably likely to be accessed by 
children after December 31, 2025. 
SECTION 3.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8003 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbe ring, reads as follows: 
A covered entity that provides an online product, service or 
feature that is reasonably likely to be accessed shall not: 
A.  Process the personal data of a child in a way that the 
covered entity knows, or has reason to know, is inco nsistent with 
the best interest of children reasonably likely to access the on line 
product, service or feature. 
B.  Profile a child by default unless:   
 
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1.  The covered entity can demonstrate that the covered entity 
has appropriate safeguards in place to ens ure that profiling is 
consistent with the best interest of children reasonably likely to 
access the online product, service or feature; and 
2.  Profiling is necessary to provide the online product, 
service or feature requested, and only with respect to the aspects 
of the online product, service or feature with which the child is 
actively and knowingly engaged; or 
3.  The covered entity can demonstrate a compelling reason that 
profiling is in the best interest of children. 
C.  Process any personal data that is not necessary to provide 
an online product, service or feature with which a child is actively 
and knowingly engaged. 
D.  If the end user is a child, process personal data for any 
reason other than a reason for which that personal data was 
collected. 
E.  Process any precise geolocation information of children by 
default unless the collection of that precise geolocation 
information is strictly necessary for the covered entity to provide 
the online product, service or feature requested and then only for 
the limited time that the collection of precise geolocation 
information is necessary to provide the online product, service or 
feature.   
 
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F.  Process any precise geolocation information of a child 
without providing an obvious sign to the child for the duration of 
that collection that precise geolocation information is being 
collected. 
G.  Use dark patterns to cause children to provide personal data 
beyond what is reasonably expected to provide that online product, 
service or feature, to forego privacy protection s or to take any 
action that the covered entity knows, or has reason to know, is not 
in the best interest of children reasonably likely to access the 
online product, service or feature. 
H.  Process any personal data that is not reasonably necessary 
to provide an online product, service or feature with which a child 
is actively and knowingly engaged to reasonably estimate age. 
I.  Allow a child's parent, guardian or any other consumer to 
monitor the child's online activity or track the child 's location 
without providing an obvious signal to the child when the child is 
being monitored or tracked. 
SECTION 4.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8004 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  A covered entity that violates this act shall be: 
1.  Subject to injunctive relief to cease or correct the 
violation;   
 
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2.  Liable for a civil penalty of not more than Two Thousand 
Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) per affected child for each 
negligent violation; and 
3.  Liable for a civil penalty of not more than Seven Thousand 
Five Hundred Dollars ($7,500.00) per affected child for each 
intentional violation. 
B.  Enforcement actions pursuant to subsection A of this section 
shall only be initiated by the Attorney General. 
C.  If a covered entity is in substantial compliance with the 
requirements of Sections 3 through 5 of this act, the Attorney 
General shall provide written notice to the covered entity, before 
initiating an action pursuant to subsection A of this section, 
identifying the specific provisions of that act that the Attorney 
General alleges have been or are being violated. 
D.  If a covered entity in compliance with subsection H of this 
section cures the alleged violations identified in a notice pursuant 
to subsection C of this section and provides the Attorney General a 
written statement that the alleged violations have been cured and 
sufficient measures have been taken to prevent future violations, 
the covered entity shall not be liable for a civil penalty for any 
violation cured pursuant to this subsection. 
E.  Nothing in this act shall be interpreted to serve as the 
basis for a private right of action under this act or any other law.   
 
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SECTION 5.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statute s as Section 8005 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
This act shall not apply to: 
A.  Protected health information that is collect ed by a covered 
entity associate governed by the privacy, security and breach 
notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health 
and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the federal Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. 
B.  A covered entity governed by the privacy, security and 
breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of 
Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the federal Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, to the extent 
the provider or covered entity maintains patient information in the 
same manner as medical information or pr otected health information 
as described in subsection A of this section. 
C.  Information collected as part of a clinical trial subject to 
the federal policy for the protection of human subjects, also known 
as the common rule, pursuant to good clinical prac tice guidelines 
issued by the International Council for Harmonization of Technical 
Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use or pursuant to human   
 
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subject protection requirements of the United States Food and Drug 
Administration. 
D.  A telecommunications service as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 
153. 
E.  The delivery or use of a p hysical product. 
SECTION 6.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8006 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
Nothing in this act shall be interpreted or construed to: 
A.  Impose liability in a manner that is inconsistent with 47 
U.S.C., Section 230. 
B.  Prevent or preclude a child from deliberately or 
independently search ing for, or specifically requesting, content. 
C.  Require a covered entity to restrict access to online 
products, services, or features based solely on age. 
SECTION 7.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Stat utes as Section 8007 of Title 10, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  This act shall apply to covered entities in Oklahoma or 
persons that provide online products, services, or features that are 
targeted to residents o f this state and that during the preceding 
calendar year: 
1.  Controlled or processed the personal data of not fewer than 
one hundred thousand (100,000) consumers, excluding personal data   
 
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controlled or processed solely for the purpose of completing a 
payment transaction; or 
2.  Controlled or processed the personal data of not fewer than 
twenty-five thousand (25,000) consumers and derived more than 
twenty-five percent (25%) of the covered entity 's gross revenue from 
the sale of personal data. 
B.  This act does not apply to an online product, service, or 
feature that is not accessible by the public after December 31, 
2025. 
SECTION 8.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
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