Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure Americans’ Data Privacy Rights - Documents for the Record - April 17, 2024

Oct 13, 2026

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Documents for the record for a hearing titled “Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure Americans’ Data Privacy Rights” held on April 17, 2024. The Chair received unanimous consent to include multiple privacy and online safety letters, organizational documents, and testimonies submitted by Majority and Minority members, as well as published reports and articles addressing youth mental health, social media risks, and related federal privacy legislation topics such as APRA and the Verifying Kids’ Online Privacy Act.

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Documents for the record

Letters and organizational submissions

Testimony and advisory materials

Published reports and news articles

Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce Hearing entitled “Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure Americans’ Data Privacy Rights” [April 17, 2024] Documents for the record At the conclusion of the meeting, the Chair asked and was given unanimous consent to include the following documents into the record: 1. Letter from America’s Credit Unions to Chair Bilirakis and RM Schakowsky on privacy legislation , submitted by the Majority. 2. Letter from the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies to Chair Rodgers and RM Pallone on APRA, submitted by the Majority 3. Letter from Rep. Auchincloss (MA-04) to Chair Rodgers and RM Pallone on children’sonline safety legislation and the Verifying Kids’ Online Privacy Act, submitted by the Minority 4. Letter from the California Privacy Protection Agency to Chairs Rodgers and Bilirakis on privacy preemption, submitted by the Majority 5. Letter from Consumer Reports to Chair Rodgers and RM Pallone on APRA, submitted by the Minority 6. Letter from the Electronic Privacy Information Center to Chair Rodgers and RM Pallone on APRA, submitted by the Majority 7. Document from the American Alliance for Vehicle Owners’ Rights on privacy legislation, submitted by the Majority 8. Document from the Center for Digital Democracy on APRA, submitted by the Majority 9. Letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights to Chairs Rodgers and Bilirakis and RMs Pallone and Schakowsky on privacy legislation, submitted by the Majority 10. Letter from Main Street Privacy Coalition to Chairs Rodgers and Bilirakis and RM Pallone and Schakowsky on APRA, submitted by the Majority 11. Document from the National Taxpayers Union on privacy legislation, submitted by the Majority 12. Letter from Privacy for America to Chairs Rodgers and Bilirakis and RMs Pallone and Schakowsky on privacy legislation, submitted by the Majority 13. Letter from the US Chamber of Commerce to Chair Bilirakis and RM Schakowsky on APRA, submitted by the Majority 14. Letter from R Street to Chair Bilirakis and RM Schakowsky on privacy legislation , submitted by Rep. Walberg 15. Letter from ACLI, Finseca, IRI, NAFA, and NAIFA on privacy, submitted by the Majority 16. Letter from BSA The Software Alliance to Chair Bilirakis and RM Schakowsky on APRA, submitted by the Minority 17. Testimony of Jonathan Haidt titled “Teen Mental Health is Plummeting, and Social Media is a Major Contributing Cause,” submitted by Rep. Castor 18. Testimony of Arturo Bejar before the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law, November 7, 2023, submitted by Rep. Castor 19. U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory titled,“Social Media and Youth Mental Health,”submitted by Rep. Castor 20. CNBC article titled,“Unredacted complaint alleges Meta knew of ‘huge volume’ of child sexual harassment on its platforms,” January 18, 2024, submitted by Rep. Castor 21. Common Sense report titled,“Constant Companion: A Week in the Life of a Young Person's Smartphone Use,” submitted by Rep. Castor 22. Report titled,“Dangerous by Design: How Social Media Companies Are Hurting Our Kids, National Security, and Democracy—and What We Can Do About It,” submitted by Rep. Castor 23. Report titled,“Designing for Disorder: Instagram’s Pro-eating Disorder Bubble,”submitted by Rep. Castor 24. Wall Street Journal article titled,“Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts,” October 17, 2021, submitted by Rep. Castor 25. Testimony of Frances Haugen before the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. 26. Wall Street Journal article titled,“Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest,” November 5, 2021, submitted by Rep. Castor. 27. Report titled,“Unfair Impacts: How LGBTQIA+ Youth are Disproportionately Harmed by Online Platform Design Decisions,” submitted by Rep. Castor 28. Issue One p

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It relates to the hearing “Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure Americans’ Data Privacy Rights.”

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It includes letters, organizational documents, testimonies, advisories, reports, and news articles submitted by Majority and Minority members.

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