Google’s announcement comes on the heels of changes unveiled last month by Facebook to protect teenage users on Instagram. In 2019, it agreed to pay a $170 million fine for violating COPPA by collecting children’s data without parental consent. Google has repeatedly faced scrutiny over its handling of data related to children. The 1998 law, known as COPPA, restricts the tracking and targeting of children under 13 years old, and the bills would extend those protections to teenagers. In the last few months, two pieces of legislation, one in the House and one in the Senate, seek to update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. There is growing bipartisan support in Washington to press technology companies to do more to protect children. The company plans to roll out the changes in the “coming weeks,” it said.
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