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Senate motion to restrict online data collection from minors fails after broad tech opposition
Summary
A bill that would have defined children as anyone under 18 for online data-collection rules failed to advance after testimony from tech industry groups and civil-society advocates about privacy, enforcement and unintended harms.
A proposed expansion of child-data protections to cover all users under age 18 did not pass out of the Senate technology committee on Feb. 12 after more than an hour of testimony from privacy advocates, industry groups and civil-rights organizations.
Senator Sutterlein introduced a substitute to move the Statement of Economic Interest filing date earlier and, separately, presented SB 7 83, a bill to treat anyone under age 18 as a child for internet privacy protections. Sutterlein and supporters said the change would curb aggressive, targeted marketing at teens and protect minors from commercial data collection without parental consent.
Opposition and concerns Industry groups including Meta, Chamber Progress,…
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