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Lawmakers, advocates press for COPPA updates, Kids Online Safety Act and App Store rules to bolster parental control
Summary
Witnesses urged layered, bipartisan policy solutions—age assurance, app store parental consent, design standards in the Kids Online Safety Act (COSA), and COPPA modernization—to reduce exposure, addictive design, and data collection on minors.
Witnesses at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing recommended multiple, complementary laws to reduce children’s exposure to harmful content and the addictive design choices that amplify it.
Why it matters: Panelists said parental tools alone are insufficient. They urged layered protections—age verification, app‑store parental consent, app design obligations, and updated COPPA definitions—to address the collective and algorithmic harms children face online.
Claire Morrell, Ethics and Public Policy Center, argued social media is a harmful…
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