The Youth AI Privacy Act Has One Genuinely Good Idea and One Fatal Design Flaw
S. 4199 would bar AI companies from training on minors' chat logs or disclosing them to other firms. That provision is correct and overdue. But by pro...
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Four Bills, One Committee, One Direction — the Senate Just Advanced the Age-Gated Internet
On August 5 the Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act in a single sitting. Every one ...
The KIDS Act Passes the House 267-117 — The Anonymity Tax Heads to the Senate
Last night the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, the first time any version of KOSA has cleared the lower chamber. The duty of ca...
The KIDS Act: How a Child-Safety Bill Became a Mandate to Card Every American Online
House leaders bundled KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and a dozen other bills into one giant package — the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act. In the deal-making, ...
To Protect Kids Online, Congress Wants to ID Everyone. That's the Trade Nobody Voted For.
A House subcommittee just took up 19 federal digital-media bills, including a revised Kids Online Safety Act and an App Store Accountability Act that ...
The EFF Says the SECURE Data Act Is Privacy Theater — Are They Right?
We covered the SECURE Data Act when it passed committee, calling it a meaningful step toward federal privacy law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation j...
The SECURE Data Act Could Rewrite American Privacy Law — Here's What It Actually Says
House Republicans dropped the SECURE Data Act on April 22 — the most serious federal privacy legislation in years. It would give every American the ri...
Congress Punted on FISA 702 — Your Emails and Texts Are Still Being Swept Up Without a Warrant
Congress failed to pass a 5-year or 18-month renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the warrantless surveillance progra...