We must work together to
Keep Kids SAFE and CONNECTED
Our kids deserve access to information and the virtual tools critical in keeping them connected and engrained in their communities without fear of being exploited. Policymakers have the opportunity to prioritize the privacy and safety of kids while empowering parents to be active participants in how their child operates online.
Our Mission
We are united by a concern that Congress is advancing legislation that will create new vulnerabilities for children’s and adults’ private data; expose children to new and unregulated safety concerns; leave parents with limited ways to keep their children safe; cut off the next generation from information critical to their education; and limit freedom of expression.
We support measures that would meaningfully improve online privacy and safety. These bills under consideration would do the opposite and put our kids’ futures at risk:
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
The STOP CSAM Act (CSAM)
The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act)
The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act
A Vision to Keep Kids Safe and Connected: Child and Teen Safety Principles
Our kids deserve access to information and the virtual tools critical to keeping them connected and engrained in their communities without fear of being exploited. Policymakers have the opportunity to prioritize the privacy and safety of kids while empowering parents to be active participants in how their child operates online.
The following are the principles we believe should ground federal policy – including legislation – to keep kids safe and connected while holding platforms accountable for doing just that.
Keep kids safe.
Platforms should be required to be more transparent.
We need to minimize the collection of personal data from children and teens and restrict the ways in which data is used, and provide easy-to-use and easy-to-access tools that empower children, teens, and families to customize safety protections and exercise rights over their own data.
Advertising should not be based on online behaviors or activity of children and teens. Indeed, we should protect children’s personal information with strong security safeguards that are appropriate to the level of sensitivity of the personal information collected, used, or shared.
Keep kids connected.
We must ensure children and teens have equitable access to educational material on the internet and through other digital applications, and support resourcing to foster media and digital literacy in K-12 schools.
Keep platforms accountable.
Risk-based impact assessments to address risks to children and teens should be required, and we should empower enforcement for additional accountability. Advancing consistent rules across the United States is pivotal in achieving this.
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