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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut General Statutes: Chapter 743jj Sec. 42-515 to 42-899 Data Privacy and Security index (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut's data privacy chapter (743jj, title 42) holds the only social-media / minors online provisions; it is on the General Assembly's statute site under the heading quoted.",
      "body": "Connecticut's data privacy chapter (743jj, title 42) holds the only social-media / minors online provisions; it is on the General Assembly's statute site under the heading quoted.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Chapter 743jj Sec. 42-515 to 42-899 Data Privacy and Security”\n\nNote: Anchor record: Connecticut's own official site, state .gov domain.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/title_42.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-17",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
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      "evidence_quote": "Chapter 743jj Sec. 42-515 to 42-899 Data Privacy and Security",
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      "subject": "Connecticut General Statutes",
      "topic": "Chapter 743jj Sec. 42-515 to 42-899 Data Privacy and Security index (anchor)",
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      "id": "learn_r6626_connecticut_age_verification_laws_6626_connecticut_age_verification_laws_no_adult_av",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] CGS chapter 743jj: Adult-website age-verification statute in force",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Connecticut has no enacted statute requiring adult websites to verify visitors' age: the chapter's only social-media-and-minors section (42-528) concerns minors' accounts, and a text search of chapters 743jj, 925 and 952 for 'age verification' and 'verify the age' finds nothing.",
      "body": "Connecticut has no enacted statute requiring adult websites to verify visitors' age: the chapter's only social-media-and-minors section (42-528) concerns minors' accounts, and a text search of chapters 743jj, 925 and 952 for 'age verification' and 'verify the age' finds nothing.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Sec. 42-528. Social media platforms and minors. Request to unpublish or delete minor's account. Enforcement. Penalty.”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing, not from operative text). Index searched: cga.ct.gov chapter 743jj (current and 2026 supplement), chapter 925 and chapter 952 full text for 'age verif', 'verify the age', 'age assurance' and 'commercially reasonable method': no hits.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_743jj.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-17",
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      "evidence_quote": "Sec. 42-528. Social media platforms and minors. Request to unpublish or delete minor's account. Enforcement. Penalty.",
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      "subject": "CGS chapter 743jj",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] CGS 42-528: Minors' accounts on social media",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Section 42-528 lets a minor (under 18) or a parent request that a social media platform unpublish or delete the minor's account; it does not require age verification of adult visitors.",
      "body": "Section 42-528 lets a minor (under 18) or a parent request that a social media platform unpublish or delete the minor's account; it does not require age verification of adult visitors.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Sec. 42-528. Social media platforms and minors. Request to unpublish or delete minor's account.”\n\nNote: Heading only; see could_not_verify for the 2026 online safety act.",
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      "subject": "CGS 42-528",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] CGS 42-528: Who the minors section binds",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The minors section applies to a 'social media platform', defined as a public or semi-public Internet-based service used by a consumer in this state; it binds platforms, not an individual creator selling their own content.",
      "body": "The minors section applies to a 'social media platform', defined as a public or semi-public Internet-based service used by a consumer in this state; it binds platforms, not an individual creator selling their own content.\n\nWhat Connecticut General Assembly (Connecticut General Statutes) actually says:\n\n“means a public or semi-public Internet-based service or application that (i) is used by a consumer in this state”",
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