The KIDS Act is a federal US bill that passed the House of Representatives in June 2026, and as of October 2026 it isn't law. The text the House passed wouldn't make Fluxer check your age with ID or a face scan, and Fluxer never asks for either.
What is the KIDS Act?
The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, is a package of several bills about children's safety online. It includes a House version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and changes to US children's privacy law that people call COPPA 2.0. It also has rules for online games, AI chatbots and websites with mostly sexual content.
Is the KIDS Act law?
No, only the House has passed it so far. It passed on June 29, 2026 by 267 votes to 117, and the Senate sent it to its Commerce Committee on July 13, 2026, as the text referred to the Senate shows. As of October 2026, the Senate hasn't voted on it, and a bill has to pass both the House and the Senate in the same form before it can become federal law.
Are KOSA and COPPA 2.0 law?
As of October 2026, neither KOSA nor COPPA 2.0 is law, either on its own or as part of the KIDS Act. The original COPPA from 1998, which protects the privacy of children under 13, is law, and Fluxer follows it, as section 11 of our privacy policy says. You need to be at least 13 to use Fluxer, or older where your country sets a higher minimum age.
Would the KIDS Act make Fluxer verify my age?
Not in the text the House passed, because its KOSA part says it doesn't require any service to add age checks. The only age check rule in it covers websites where more than a third of the content is sexual material harmful to minors, and Fluxer isn't a website like that.
Its KOSA part also applies only to apps that, among other things, use your personal information for ads, marketing or recommendations. fluxer.com has no ads or algorithmic feed and doesn't use your personal data or content for advertising or behavioral profiling, as our privacy policy says, so in our reading that part wouldn't apply.
Its COPPA 2.0 part would apply to fluxer.com, because it covers any service that knows or should know that a user is under 18. It would give children under 14 the protections that children under 13 have today, and give teens from 14 to 17 more privacy rights.
Can a US law apply to a Swedish company?
Yes, it can when the company offers its service to people in the US, and fluxer.com is available there. Fluxer is run by Fluxer Platform AB, a company registered in Sweden, and we follow the US laws that apply to fluxer.com as well as Swedish and EU law.
Regional restrictions lists each US state law about children online that we've assessed, and Mississippi is the only state where fluxer.com is unavailable.
What if I don't want to depend on fluxer.com?
You can run Fluxer on your own server for free, because the code is open source under the AGPL. Fluxer doesn't store the accounts, messages or files on an instance it doesn't run. You can also export your data from fluxer.com at any time and keep a copy for yourself.