COPPA 2.0
United StatesHigh threat- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Became Law
Stage 2 of 4: Passed Senate
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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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
Passed SenateLatest
Reported by committee
Introduced
Referred to committee
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
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