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State Children's Privacy Law Tracker / Georgia

Georgia Children's Privacy Laws (2026)

2 laws & bills tracked · overall: Enacted, enjoined · current as of July 18, 2026

Georgia has 2 tracked children's privacy laws and bills, each listed below with its status, the ages it covers, litigation posture, and a link to the official primary source. For the interactive view, open Georgia in the tracker map.

SB 351: Protecting Georgia's Children on Social Media Act of 2024 (Act 463), social media provisions · SB 351 (2023-2024 Reg. Sess.) / Act 463

Enacted, enjoined: Passed, but a court has currently blocked enforcement. · Social media · effective 2025-07-01 · binds operators, platforms

Ages: under 16

Requires: Age verification of all users via commercially reasonable efforts; verifiable parental/guardian consent before a minor under 16 can create or maintain a social media account; limits on data collection and targeted advertising to minors under 16; treat unverifiable users as minors.

Litigation: NetChoice v. Carr (N.D. Ga., No. 1:25-cv-02422). PI granted June 26, 2025 (Judge Amy Totenberg), First Amendment grounds. On appeal to 11th Circuit (No. 25-12436); oral argument March 10, 2026; no appellate ruling. Injunction currently in effect.

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Entry last reviewed

Georgia Conversational AI Safety Act (SB 540) · SB 540 (2025-2026 Reg. Sess.); Act 518; adds O.C.G.A. 39-5-6

Enacted, not yet effective: Signed into law; its effective date is still in the future. · AI companion · effective 2027-07-01 · binds operators

Ages: All users; minor-triggered duties when the operator knows or should know the user is a minor or the product is minor-directed

Requires: Operators of an 'AI companion chatbot' (defined by the same three-prong sustained-relationship test as Hawaii's act: retained cross-session personalization, unprompted emotion-based questions, and ongoing personal dialogue) must disclose the AI nature of the service at least every three hours, tightening to hourly for known minors or minor-directed products; take reasonable measures against sexual content directed at minors; provide privacy tools; and adopt a suicidal-ideation and self-harm response protocol. AG-enforced. Video-game NPCs restricted to game subject matter are carved out.

Litigation: None (effective 2027-07-01).

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Entry last reviewed

Also on the books (out of scope): SB 351 (Act 463): adult-content / 'material harmful to minors' age-verification (O.C.G.A. § 39-5-5; sites >33.3% harmful material must verify users are 18+; effective July 1, 2025; not enjoined in NetChoice v. Carr).; SB 467 (2025-2026 Reg. Sess.): App Store Accountability bill (would require app stores to verify ages and get parental consent for minors' app downloads); died in Senate committee at 2026 sine die. Out-of-scope mandates (like adult-content age-gates) are tracked separately and don't set this state's status.

Federal · COPPAapplies here too

Regardless of state law, COPPA governs personal information collected from children under 13: notice, verifiable parental consent, data minimization, and (under the 2025 amended Rule) limits on retention and third-party sharing.

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Not legal advice. I build products for a living; I'm not a lawyer. Compiled from primary sources and reviewed monthly as part of the State Children's Privacy Law Tracker; AI-assisted research, verified against each law's official source, but laws and injunctions change fast, so confirm the latest before relying on it. Related: COPPA's Gray Areas.

Cite this page: Calvo, Isaac A. "Georgia: Children's Privacy Laws." isaaccalvo.com/child-privacy-laws/georgia (data as of 2026-07-18).