Memorandum in SupportA.774 (Rosenthal)/S. 825 (Liu) Protections for Child Influencers

The Family Online Safety Institute supports S.825/A.774, which would create a
trust account for minors who are featured in their parents’ social media content. If
passed, New York would be among just 3 other states to pass a law codifying
influencing as labor for minors. The bill would ensure that children who are featured in
their parents’ content receive a portion of the earnings generated from those videos.
Additionally, this law features a clause that would allow a child 13 or older, or an adult
who was a child at the time of the content being posted, to request that the content
they were featured in be deleted. While this bill is not a silver bullet to protect child
influencers from all online harms, it creates a pathway towards economic justice and
empowers a child’s right to privacy.