On the recordJuly 30, 2024
today is a historic day. Today the U.S. Senate will vote on the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act, which includes my legislation with Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA 2.0. With this vote, the U.S. Senate will finally send a message to Big Tech that the days of indiscriminately tracking and targeting children and teens are over in our country; that their privacy-invasive business model must change; that young people and their parents are more important than shareholders' bank accounts. This vote is long overdue. On June 20, 1996--June 20, 1996--more than 28 years ago, at the dawn of the information age, when only birds tweeted and ``the gram'' was simply a measurement, I stood before the House of Representatives and warned about the internet's unique threat to user privacy.…
