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House panel to hold hearing on privacy, kids safety bills.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week on several technology policy bills, including a newly unveiled comprehensive data privacy bill and kids online safety bills, the committee announced late Tuesday. Wednesday’s hearing will include discussions of the American Privacy Rights Act, which was released Sunday by committee Chair Cathy…
The bill would set in place regulations around how companies collect and use Americans’ data, and it would preempt state laws that have been enacted in recent years in lieu of federal guidelines. House versions of the bipartisan bills, which advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee in July, were introduced Tuesday led by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.). The CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord and X faced questions about their impacts on youth users at a heated Senate committee hearing in January.
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