With newly proposed legislation, the House has joined the Senate
in introducing bipartisan legislation making changes to the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This pending
legislation, when combined with the Federal Trade Commission's
(FTC) ongoing COPPA review and workshop, foreshadows expanded COPPA
protections, especially for teenagers between 13 and 15 years of
age.
In the Senate: In March 2019, Senators Edward
Markey (D-Mass.) and Joshua Hawley (R- Mo.) introduced a new bill,
COPPA 2.0. COPPA
2.0's core changes include banning the use of targeted
advertising to users under 13, requiring personal (but not
parental) consent before the collection of personal information
from users aged 13 to 15 ("minors"), requiring connected
devices and toys directed toward children to meet certain
cybersecurity standards and include privacy policy disclosure on
their packaging, and requiring services to offer an "eraser
button" to permit minors to eliminate their
