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"It's been 25 years since Congress passed legislation to protect children and teens online, and Congress simply cannot wait any longer," says the executive director of Fairplay, an advocacy group for kids' online privacy.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Biden called for new rules to protect children's online privacy, including a ban on targeted advertising to children, the New York Times reports.
"It's time for Congress to act," he said.
"It's been 25 years since Congress passed legislation to protect children and teens online, and Congress simply cannot wait any longer."
The bill Biden is calling for, called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or COPPA 2.0, is an update to the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which allowed tech companies to collect and share data belonging to people over the age of 13, as well as target ads to teenagers.
COPPA 2.0 would increase the cut-off age for privacy protections from 13 to 16, and it would also create a Youth Privacy and Marketing division at the FTC to address issues related to kids' online privacy.
COPPA 2.0 failed to get a floor vote in the Senate last year after it passed out of committee.
Republicans on the committee largely opposed the bill, arguing
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