AI Chatbots, Children and Online Safety Laws Quiz

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1. Under COPPA, what must a covered service get before collecting personal information from a child under 13?
   • A signed statement from the child's school
   • Verifiable parental consent
   • A government ID from the child
   • Nothing, as long as the data is encrypted
2. Which UK regulator enforces the Online Safety Act and has said generative AI chatbots can fall within its scope?
   • The Information Commissioner's Office
   • The Competition and Markets Authority
   • Ofcom
   • The Financial Conduct Authority
3. Which requirement is part of California's SB 243 for companion chatbots?
   • Protocols to prevent content encouraging suicide or self-harm and to refer users to crisis services
   • A ban on all chatbots for anyone under 18
   • Licensing every chatbot through the state medical board
   • Storing all conversations on servers in California
4. What does SB 243 require for users the operator knows are minors?
   • Showing ads only from approved vendors
   • Requiring a parent to sit in on every session
   • Deleting every chat after 24 hours
   • Periodic reminders to take a break and that the chatbot is not human, plus reasonable measures to prevent sexually explicit content
5. Why is a "13+" checkbox often not enough for compliance?
   • Checkboxes are illegal in the UK
   • Many rules turn on actual knowledge, the likely audience, or reasonable measures, not just what users say about their age
   • COPPA applies only to users over 18
   • A checkbox counts as verifiable parental consent
6. Why do self-harm safety systems score risk across a whole conversation, not only message by message?
   • Single messages are too short to be classified
   • The law forbids reading individual messages
   • Risk can build up gradually over many turns, especially in long role-play sessions
   • Scoring whole conversations is cheaper
7. What was notable about the 2025 ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies?
   • The court allowed most claims to proceed instead of dismissing the case
   • The case was dismissed because chatbots cannot be sued
   • The company was ordered to shut down
   • The FTC took over the lawsuit
8. Which age assurance method does the guide describe as the weakest?
   • Age verification against an ID
   • Age estimation from face signals
   • Third-party age credentials
   • Self-declaration