What’s New in COPPA 2.0? A Summary of the Proposed Changes

On November 25th, U.S. House Energy and Commerce introduced a comprehensive bill package to advance child online privacy and safety, which included its own version of the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA 2.0”) to modernize COPPA. First enacted in 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a federal law that provides important online protections for children’s data. Now that the law is nearly 30 years old, many advocates, stakeholders, and Congressional lawmakers are pushing to amend COPPA to ensure its data protections are reflective and befitting of the online environments youth experience today.