Last month, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), initially introduced last term, noting that the bill now has 62 cosponsors, bipartisan support, and is poised to pass in the Senate.

KOSA would apply to online platforms (including social media services and virtual reality environments), online video games, messaging applications, and video streaming services that are used, or are reasonably likely to be used, by an individual under 17 years of age, subject to enumerated exceptions.

Below we discuss some of KOSA’s key requirements, including notable changes in the most recent version of the bill, as well as in the incorporated Filter Bubble Transparency Act.

Read the full blog post here at Perkins on Privacy.