Senate Commerce to Vote on COPPA Bill at June 25 Markup
The Senate Commerce Committee will consider legislation updating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) at a June 25 markup, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced Wednesday.
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Introduced by Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (S. 836), also known as COPPA 2.0, would expand COPPA to cover teenagers. The FTC currently sets rules under COPPA that apply to children younger than 13.
COPPA 2.0 would ban online platforms from collecting personal data from users who are 13 to 16 years old without their consent. In addition, it would ban targeted advertising for kids and teens, allow users to delete their personal information, establish data-minimization rules and update COPPA’s “actual knowledge” standard.
Cruz told us in January he expected the committee to move COPPA 2.0, as well as the Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1748). The committee in February passed the Kids Off Social Media Act (S. 278), a bill from Cruz and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, (see 2502050043).