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2025 Vermont Statutes
Title 9 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 62 - Protection of Personal Information
§ 2449d. Required default privacy settings and tools [Effective January 1, 2027]

Universal Citation:
9 VT Stats § 2449d
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§ 2449d. Required default privacy settings and tools [Effective January 1, 2027]

(a) Default privacy settings.

(1) A covered business shall configure all default privacy settings provided to a covered minor through the online service, product, or feature to the highest level of privacy, including the following default settings:

(A) not displaying the existence of the covered minor’s account on a social media platform to any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to view their account or has expressly and unambiguously chosen to make their account’s existence public;

(B) not displaying media created or posted by the covered minor on a social media platform to any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to view their media or has expressly and unambiguously chosen to make their media publicly available;

(C) not permitting any known adult users to like, comment on, or otherwise provide feedback on the covered minor’s media on a social media platform unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously allowed a specific known adult user to do so;

(D) not permitting direct messaging on a social media platform between the covered minor and any known adult user unless the covered minor has expressly and unambiguously decided to allow direct messaging with a specific known adult user;

(E) not displaying the covered minor’s location to other users, unless the covered minor expressly and unambiguously shares their location with a specific user;

(F) not displaying the users connected to the covered minor on a social media platform unless the covered minor expressly and unambiguously chooses to share the information with a specific user;

(G) disabling search engine indexing of the covered minor’s account profile; and

(H) not sending push notifications to the covered minors.

(2) A covered business shall not:

(A) provide a covered minor with a single setting that makes all of the default privacy settings less protective at once; or

(B) request or prompt a covered minor to make their privacy settings less protective, unless the change is strictly necessary for the covered minor to access a service or feature they have expressly and unambiguously requested.

(b) Timely deletion of account. A covered business shall:

(1) provide a prominent, accessible, and responsive tool to allow a covered minor to request the covered minor’s account on a social media platform be unpublished or deleted; and

(2) honor that request not later than 15 days after a covered business receives the request. (Added 2025, No. 63, § 1, eff. January 1, 2027.)

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