Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to bring the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children’s and Teens Privacy Protection Act to the a procedural vote on the Senate floor.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to announce in a speech that he will bring the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children’s and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act to the Senate floor this week for a procedural vote. This tees up the biggest step yet on the federal level to move forward with a law in the area of kids' online safety legislation.
would build on an existing children’s privacy law and raise the age for privacy protections from kids under 13 to 17, and ban targeted advertising to that group. Some advocacy groups like Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have remained critical of fearing it would stifle speech across the internet and could limit access to certain resources for marginalized kids on ideological grounds. While other groups, including prominent LGBTQ+ groups like GLAAD and the Trevor Project, had previously raised concerns that KOSA could be weaponized against resources for LGBTQ+ youth, they dropped their opposition after the bill’s sponsors made several changes.
for example, has for months had more than 60 co-sponsors, clearing the threshold needed to pass the chamber. Even if they pass the Senate, the bills could still face additional challenges ahead. They’d need to be passed by the House, which recently canceled a committee hearing that would have included a discussion of KOSA due to Republican leadership concerns on a separate privacy bill.
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