Children's Online Privacy In 2025: State Legislative Action

During the Biden administration, children's privacy was clearly a federal government priority. President Biden included privacy—and children's privacy, in particular—in his agenda in both the 2022 and 2023 State of the Union addresses; Congress introduced numerous children's privacy bills; and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its most aggressive children's privacy settlement yet by using its Section 5 powers to broaden its children's privacy mandate to include not only children under the age of 13 but all minors. 

It is still unclear whether the Trump administration will have the same amount of focus on the protection of children's privacy. After a significant delay, the FTC, which enforces the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), finally published its proposed amendments to the COPPA Rule in the Federal Register. The agency currently has only three out of the five required commissioners, however. Previous dissents by these commissioners could