{"id":177071,"date":"2026-01-12T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots-mlex\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:40:10","slug":"new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots-mlex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots-mlex\/","title":{"rendered":"New York proposes legislation to protect kids online, restrict AI chatbots | MLex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2429268\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots\">New York proposes legislation to protect kids online, restrict AI chatbots | MLex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2429268\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots\">https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2429268\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 15:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mlex.com\">www.mlex.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New legislation proposed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul aims to protect children from online predators, scammers, and harmful AI chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>The new proposals include expanding age verification requirements for online platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s privacy settings would be set to the highest level by default on online platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Certain AI chatbot features on social media platforms for kids would be disabled under the new legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Companies would need to provide parents with the ability to set limits on financial transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Kathy Hochul emphasizes the importance of the well-being and safety of children in today\u2019s digital world.<\/li>\n<li>MLex offers specialized reporting and analysis on regulatory changes impacting businesses globally.<\/li>\n<li>The platform provides daily newsletters, custom alerts, predictive analysis, and curated case files on major legal and regulatory topics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York proposes legislation to protect kids online, restrict AI chatbots | MLex https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2429268\/new-york-proposes-legislation-to-protect-kids-online-restrict-ai-chatbots Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/images\/.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177073,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177071\/revisions\/177073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}