{"id":564,"date":"2020-02-20T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2020-05-16T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T17:23:27","slug":"leavitts-washington-online-privacy-for-minors-bill-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2020\/02\/20\/leavitts-washington-online-privacy-for-minors-bill-passes-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt\u2019s Washington Online Privacy for Minors Bill Passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New protections for children are on their way to becoming law thanks to new legislation passed by the House Tuesday morning. Rep. Mari Leavitt, D-University Place, introduced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=2442&amp;Year=2019&amp;Initiative=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">House Bill 2442<\/a>\u00a0which was approved by the House in a near unanimous 96-1 vote. The legislation puts into place restrictions on advertising of specific products to minors and restricts sale of personal information of data. Minors can also request information posted online be removed, something wanted by children and parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an increasingly digital world, children are increasingly becoming targets of advertising, often for harmful products like alcohol, vapor, or age-inappropriate materials,\u201d said Leavitt. \u201cWe cannot allow companies to use data taken from our children to market directly to them, particularly for products that we want kids to avoid. This is a great step in protecting our children while still maintaining their access to information and developing the digital literacy required for the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill requires protections for all children under the age of 18, protecting significantly more children than the federal Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) which limits its requirements to apply to those children under the age of 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAyMTkuMTczOTYzNzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FwcC5sZWcud2EuZ292L2JpbGxzdW1tYXJ5P0JpbGxOdW1iZXI9MjQ0MiZZZWFyPTIwMTkmSW5pdGlhdGl2ZT1mYWxzZSJ9.soNozx8aOCHbl_zxZsPRatZfKnwvNYcLpzDibVdB-bE\/br\/75153500116-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Bill 2442<\/a>\u00a0now heads to the Senate for its consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New protections for children are on their way to becoming law thanks to new legislation passed by the House Tuesday morning. Rep. Mari Leavitt, D-University Place, introduced\u00a0House Bill 2442\u00a0which was approved by the House in a near unanimous 96-1 vote. The legislation puts into place restrictions on advertising of specific products to minors and restricts &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesubtimes.com\/2020\/02\/20\/leavitts-washington-online-privacy-for-minors-bill-passes-house\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}