Senate Advances Bills to Protect Children’s Online Safety and Privacy

The Senate has cleared procedural hurdles for two bills that protect children’s safety and privacy online, readying them for a floor vote with a guaranteed passage next Tuesday.
The new legislation significantly updates a decades-old law to safeguard children’s safety on the internet. The rules for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) became effective in 2000, four years before Facebook was created.
“Today, the Senate takes a groundbreaking step towards ensuring our kids’ online safety, a.k.a. social media,” said Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has been instrumental in pushing the bills to a floor vote before the summer recess….