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fromThe Verge
2 days ago

Tim Cook's lobbying hangs over a key kids online safety vote

Congressional committee is set to vote on 18 kids online safety bills, amid concerns Big Tech and app stores weakened protections and preempted state laws.
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fromThe Verge
1 week ago

A leading kids safety bill has been poison pilled, supporters say

A House subcommittee packaged 19 bills to improve kids' online safety, but the reworked KOSA drops its duty-of-care and raises federal preemption concerns.
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress

For years, lawmakers at the state and federal levels have tried a variety of measures aimed at making kids safer on the internet, from kids-tailored design standards to age verification for individual websites. More recently, a new model has caught on in the states, and now it's gaining steam in Congress: putting the onus on app stores nationwide. The new approach to age verification orders mobile app stores to verify users' ages, then send that information to apps when users download them.
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