Congress should increase funding for law enforcement training and investigations to keep children safe online.

To Do: Increase Funding to Fight CSAM

To avoid infringing on privacy and free speech online with controversial provisions that aim to protect minors, lawmakers should hit pause on these proposals and instead make necessary investments into artificial intelligence (AI) tools for age estimation and electronic identification.

AI Could Make Age Verification More Accurate and Less Invasive

Congress should require device makers and platforms hosting age-restricted content to establish a “child flag” system to protect underage users.

To Do: Establish a “Child Flag” System for Age-Restricted Content

To Do: Establish a "Child Flag" System for Age-Restricted Content

Watch now for the panel dsicussion focusing on age verification technology for social media, AI age estimation, and current capabilities and limitations that policymakers should consider when crafting legislation designed to protect children.

Age Verification Tech for Social Media: Exploring the Opportunities and Pitfalls

A combination of privacy-protective age verification systems utilizing digital forms of identification and AI, parental controls that are readily available and easy to use, and greater transparency from digital platforms would increase children’s safety and privacy, encourage innovation in improved safety and privacy controls, and better inform policymakers and parents on next steps to protect children.

Comments to Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority Regarding Processing of Personal Data of Children and Adolescents

Comments to Brazil's National Data Protection Authority Regarding Processing of Personal Data of Children and Adolescents

Congress should create a government-led forum for interoperability on parental controls.

To Do: Make Parental Controls Interoperable

The FTC should update its rule on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to reflect technological changes since the rule was last updated in 2013.

To Do: Update COPPA

Congress should pass a federal version of California’s Coogan Act.

To Do: Protect Child Performers and Influencers

Congress should provide funding for research into the long-term impacts of augmented and virtual reality on children.

To Do: Research AI Age Estimation

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To Do: Increase Funding to Fight CSAM

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To Do: Establish a “Child Flag” System for Age-Restricted Content