On August 11, 2026, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Kids Code Act, imposing privacy-by-default and safety-by-design obligations on online service providers whose services are reasonably likely to be accessed by minors. The law places structural requirements on platforms to implement protective design measures and default privacy settings for child users, representing the latest state-level attempt to mandate platform-level safeguards for minors online.
Design obligations and default privacy configurations establish a protective baseline, but they do not detect or intercept the interpersonal harms that occur within direct messaging channels after a child has accessed a compliant platform. Guardii operates at the layer those mandates do not reach: scanning the real-time message stream for grooming behaviour, sextortion threats, CSAM sharing, cyberbullying and age-inappropriate contact across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Roblox and other services. As a world-leading AI online-safety platform, Guardii does not restrict access or require every user to verify their identity; it detects the harmful exchange before it causes trauma, alerts the responsible adult and enables a targeted response proportional to the threat, delivering safety without the privacy trade-offs or displacement effects associated with blanket age-gating.
