United States of America: Introduced Verifying Kids' Online Privacy Act (HR 7534) including age verification requirement

On 5 March 2024, the Verifying Kids' Online Privacy Act (HR 7534) was introduced to the House of Representatives. The Act would amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to require social media companies to develop privacy-protective methods of verifying the age of their users to ensure that COPPA's protections extend to all children on a platform. The Act would require platforms to design a privacy-protective method suitable for their platform and submit it to the Federal Trade Commission for assessment under COPPA.