By Cristiano Lima-Strong, washingtonpost.com, 7-25-24

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said this week that he expects a pair of bills boosting online privacy and safety protections for children to clear the chamber “by a very large vote,” with initial consideration set for as early as Thursday, July 25.

Schumer, who has faced months of pressure from child safety advocates and parent activists, said lawmakers would probably greenlight the bills “either this week or early next week” after the procedural vote Thursday.

Passage of the bills – the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA 2.0 – would mark the most significant tech regulations to advance through a chamber of Congress in decades.  » Read More