COPPA 2.0

United StatesS.836 (119th)Updated March 5, 2026

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  1. Introduced
  2. Passed Senate
  3. Passed House
  4. Became Law

Passed the Senate March 2026; awaiting House action

A Senate-passed child-privacy bill whose age rules push platforms to identify which users are minors, which in practice means age-checking everyone.

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Passed Senate

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Key facts

Where
United States
Bill number
S.836 (119th)
Status
In progress
Introduced
March 4, 2025
Threat
High
Last update
March 5, 2026

Topics

Age VerificationCensorship

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What it does

COPPA 2.0 extends children's privacy rules to everyone under 17, bans targeted ads to minors, adds a delete button for their data, and limits how much a platform can collect. It changes the old actual-knowledge standard, which critics say forces platforms to work out how old each user is.

What’s at stake

To protect under-17s a platform has to know who is under 17, and the reliable way to know is to check everyone. That is age verification wearing a privacy label.

Our take

The data limits are real, and the Senate passed it without objection. But a bill that makes platforms figure out every user's age pushes the same identity checks we oppose everywhere else. Ending anonymity is the loss that counts, whatever privacy wins ride alongside.

Timeline

  1. Passed SenateLatest

  2. Reported by committee

  3. Introduced

  4. Referred to committee

The record

Sponsor

Edward Markey (D-MA)

Cosponsors (21)

Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mike Crapo (R-ID)

Committee

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee