{"id":222001,"date":"2026-03-10T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:45:11","slug":"senate-passes-coppa-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes COPPA 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0.html\">Senate Passes COPPA 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0.html\">https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 12:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.movieguide.org\">www.movieguide.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published: March 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ian Hutchinson via Unsplash<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">By India McCarty<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Senate officially passed the Children and Teens\u2019 Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA 2.0.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis bill expands the current law protecting our kids online to ensure companies cannot collect personal information from anyone under the age of 17,\u201d Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a statement about the act\u2019s passing. \u201cThis is a big step forward for protecting our kids. We hope the House can join us. They haven\u2019t thus far.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COPPA 2.0 expands upon the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, addressing modern problems like targeted advertising towards minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The Senate has unanimously passed COPPA 2.0 \u2013 the Children and Teen\u2019s Online Privacy and Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>Related: Is Congress is Working to Combat Addictive Technology?<\/p>\n<p>This bill EXPANDS the current law protecting our kids online to ensure companies cannot collect personal information from anyone under the age of 17. This is really\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn\u2019t the only bill focused on children\u2019s online safety that is currently being discussed \u2014 the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to send the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act to the House floor for a full vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FLA) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">called<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the KIDS Act \u201cthe most comprehensive online safety package\u201d the Energy and Commerce Committee has put before the House of Representatives, explaining that it limits potentially addictive features, blocks geolocation tracking features for minors and turns off algorithms on children\u2019s devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[The KIDS Act] is a combination of years of hearings, evidence gathering, heartfelt testimony and the social media questioning this committee led under several chairs in the past,\u201d Bilirakis said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all heard the stories that in a matter of days, kids can be sucked into an algorithm that twists [their]&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Passes COPPA 2.0 https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/senate-passes-coppa-2-0.html Publish Date: 2026-03-10 12:32:00 Source Domain: www.movieguide.org Published: March 10,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.movieguide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ian-hutchinson-P8rgDtEFn7s-unsplash.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-222001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222004,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222001\/revisions\/222004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}