{"id":27668,"date":"2025-05-09T14:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=27668"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:23:52","slug":"sen-ossoff-working-across-the-aisle-to-protect-kids-privacy-online","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-across-the-aisle-to-protect-kids-privacy-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Working Across the Aisle to Protect Kids\u2019 Privacy Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to strengthen protections for children and teens online.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Sen. Ossoff is launching a push to pass the bipartisan Children and Teens\u2019 Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)<\/em>, legislation he co-sponsored to limit use of children’s information for individually targeted advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bipartisan bill would limit targeted advertising to children and teens while also empowering parents to have their children\u2019s data wiped from the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bipartisan bill was originally introduced by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2023 report<\/a> by the Atlantic<\/em>, many apps used by 3- and 4-year-olds collect digital identifiers and many children\u2019s apps contain more third-party trackers than those geared toward adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis bill will restrict online spying and advertising targeting children and empower parents to take back control of their kids\u2019 sensitive and private data,\u201d Sen. Ossoff<\/strong> said.<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m bringing Senators from both parties together to pass this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect children\u2019s privacy online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last August, the Senate passed<\/a> the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act<\/em>, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Sen. Ossoff that would require online platforms to activate the most protective settings for kids by default, providing minors with options to protect their information, disable addictive product features, and opt-out of personalized algorithmic recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, President Biden signed into law<\/a> Sens. Ossoff and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)\u2019s bipartisan REPORT Act<\/em>, which \u2014 for the first time \u2014 required websites and social media platforms to report crimes involving Federal trafficking and enticement of children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read the bipartisan COPPA 2.0<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to strengthen protections for children and teens online.   Today, Sen. Ossoff is launching a push to pass the bipartisan Children and Teens\u2019 Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), legislation he co-sponsored to limit use of children’s information for individually targeted advertising. The bipartisan bill would limit targeted advertising to children […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27668","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27670,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27668\/revisions\/27670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}