1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Verifying Kids’ Online Privacy Act . 2. Children's Online Privacy Protection (a) Child defined Section 1302(1) of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ( 15 U.S.C. 6501(1) ) is amended by striking age of 13 and inserting age of 16 . (b) Verification of age required Section 1303(b) of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ( 15 U.S.C. 6502(b) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Verification of age required The regulations shall— (A) require each operator to verify the age of each individual accessing the website or online service of such operator to determine whether such individual is a child; and (B) with respect to information collected from an individual to verify the age of such individual, prohibit each operator— (i) from selling or transferring such information or otherwise making use of such information for a purpose other than age verification; and (ii) from further using or maintaining in retrievable form such information with respect to such individual on and after the date that is 30 days after the date on which an account or similar registration, of such individual and associated with such information, is closed or otherwise terminated. . (c) Regulations Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Trade Commission shall promulgate regulations to implement the amendments made by subsections (a) and (b), including regulations that, as necessary— (1) revise the regulations promulgated under section 1303(b) of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ( 15 U.S.C. 6502(b) ); (2) require the revision of, or adoption of new, guidelines approved pursuant to section 1304 of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ( 15 U.S.C. 6503 ) and establish a process under which an operator may satisfy requirements relating to age verification by following a set of self-regulatory guidelines approved under such section