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Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today called on Congress to pass his Children and Teens’ Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) legislation which would update data privacy regulations for the 21st century to ensure children and teenagers are protected online, as well as his Youth AI Privacy Act, which would require AI companies to build privacy safeguards for minors into their AI chatbots in the wake of the Meta settlement with State Attorneys General to pay $18 billion, including up to $516 million to Massachusetts. Meta is now required to implement various child-safety measures on its platforms.\n\n“Big Tech’s day of reckoning is here. This settlement sends a message every boardroom in Silicon Valley should hear: our children are not collateral damage to bolster Big Tech’s bottom line. I am proud that my original law, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, helped hold Meta accountable, but we cannot stop here. In this emerging age of artificial intelligence, Big Tech is finding more ways to exploit our children’s data and manipulate their emotions for profit, making them and an entire generation sicker. Congress must pass my Youth AI Privacy Act to protect kids using AI chatbots and pass COPPA 2.0 to update my original law. We cannot rely on courts alone to secure strong protections for our kids’ privacy and safety — Congress must act.”\n\nIn August, Senator Markey celebrated the passage of his Youth AI Privacy Act unanimously through the Senate Commerce Committee.\n\nSenator Markey’s COPPA 2.0 passed through the Senate unanimously in March 2026. Senator Markey is the original House author of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), passed in 1998.\n\nAlso in March, Senator Markey released a statement after Meta and Google were found liable in a social media addiction lawsuit.\n\n###","url":"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/following-meta-settlement-markey-calls-on-congress-to-pass-his-coppa-20-legislation-and-the-youth-ai-privacy-act-to-hold-big-tech-accountable-for-childrens-privacy","published_at":"2026-08-27","ai_topics":["privacy","children","regulation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Markey calls on Congress to pass COPPA 2.0 and his Youth AI Privacy Act requiring AI companies to build privacy safeguards for minors into chatbots.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["a4a5a5253240cbbd"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"a4a5a5253240cbbd","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"ee5e54434951770b","politician_id":"M000133","type":"press_release","content":"Washington (August 5, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today celebrated the passage of his Youth AI Privacy Act unanimously through the Senate Commerce Committee. This crucial legislation would require AI companies to build safety and privacy safeguards into their chatbots for minors.\n\n“Today’s unanimous committee passage of my Youth AI Privacy Act is a huge step forward for protecting kids’ privacy and safety in the age of AI,” said Senator Markey. “This vote demonstrates bipartisan support for robust privacy safeguards in AI chatbots and sends a clear message that Big Tech must prioritize kids over their bottom line. I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass the Youth AI Privacy Act into law.”\n\nEmerging evidence clearly suggests that minors are especially vulnerable to the harms of AI chatbots, particularly as companies introduce increasingly manipulative design features and rely on large amounts of children’s personal data. The Youth AI Privacy Act would set new privacy standards for these systems, curb the business incentives that drive harmful design choices, and address the ways Big Tech has engineered chatbots to encourage compulsive use among young people.\n\nIn July, Senator Markey announced new support for the legislation, following its initial introduction in March 2026.\n\n###","url":"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-celebrates-unanimous-committee-passage-of-his-youth-ai-privacy-act","published_at":"2026-08-05","ai_topics":["children","privacy","safety","regulation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"The Youth AI Privacy Act would mandate that AI companies build privacy and safety safeguards into chatbots for minors and curb manipulative, compulsive-use design.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["a4a5a5253240cbbd"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"a4a5a5253240cbbd","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"5e8dba37552310e0","politician_id":"M000133","type":"press_release","content":"Letter Text (PDF)\n\nWashington (July 22, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today wrote to Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the agency to reject X’s petition to terminate the company’s privacy responsibilities under a 2022 FTC order. The FTC unanimously approved the 2022 order in response to Twitter’s repeated privacy violations, which were well publicized before Elon Musk purchased the company and rebranded it as “X.”\n\nIn its petition, X makes the extraordinary claim that rebranding Twitter as X somehow frees the company from the privacy obligations it inherited. Beyond this claim, X’s other arguments — that the order’s compliance is too costly, that the company should be trusted to self-regulate, and that ending the obligations under this order would serve the public interest in the American AI race — are similarly frivolous. The senators therefore call for the Commission to reject X’s self-serving attempt to evade its legal responsibilities.\n\nIn the letter, the lawmakers wrote, “Despite X’s arguments otherwise, the company is no stranger to the 2022 order; it is Twitter’s successor. Although Twitter rebranded as X in 2023, X kept Twitter’s assets, its users, and their data. Notably, the FTC order contemplated such a corporate rebranding. The 2022 order defines ‘Respondent’ to include Twitter’s ‘successors and assigns,’ and its carve-out for genuinely distinct businesses applies only to entities that do not ‘collect, maintain, use, disclose, access, or provide access to’ data that previously enabled Twitter’s services — a condition X plainly does not meet. A name change and new leadership do not undo that legal continuity. If they did, any company could escape an FTC order simply by merging with a new entity or changing its name. The Commission should require X to comply with the 2022 order it inherited.”\n\nThe lawmakers continued, “X’s claim that compliance with the 2022 order is too costly rings hollow given the company’s scale and the nature of the obligations it knowingly inherited. X puts the cost of compliance at roughly $17 million over the past four years — or around $4.25 million per year. When Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he valued the company at $44 billion, making those routine compliance costs a fraction of the value assigned to the company just a few years ago. Furthermore, Musk, the company’s owner, is the richest person in the world, with sufficient personal wealth to support the company. More importantly, independent privacy and security oversight is not an optional expense to be cut when it becomes inconvenient. A company cannot earn early release from a privacy order simply by saying that compliance costs money.”\n\n###","url":"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-blumenthal-wyden-demand-ftc-reject-xs-frivolous-petition-to-evade-privacy-obligations","published_at":"2026-07-22","ai_topics":["privacy","regulation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Markey and colleagues urge the FTC to reject X's petition, dismissing as frivolous the claim that ending privacy obligations would serve the American AI race.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"07c8005f2dd6c2bd","politician_id":"M000133","type":"press_release","content":"Bill Text (PDF) | One-Pager (PDF)\n\nWashington (July 21, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today announced new support for his Youth AI Privacy Act, legislation that would require artificial intelligence (AI) companies to implement privacy safeguards in their AI chatbots. Senator Markey introduced the legislation in March 2026.\n\nIn 2025, approximately two-thirds of teenagers reported using AI chatbots, and roughly a quarter reported using them daily. In a tragic case, a teenager died by suicide after encouragement or advice from an AI chatbot.\n\nThe following organizations are endorsing the Youth AI Privacy Act: Fairplay, Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Common Sense Media, Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), Public Knowledge, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Becca Schmill Foundation, Issue One, Jewish Family and Children’s Services, Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology, Mothers Against Media Addiction, (MAMA), The Tech Oversight Project, InnovateEDU, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT), Transparency Coalition, The National Decency Coalition, All Girls Allowed, The Alliance for Secure AI.\n\n“The new support for my Youth AI Privacy Act sends a clear message to Big Tech: stop exploiting kids through manipulative AI chatbots,” said Senator Markey. “Parents, kids, and families across the country are rightfully demanding strong protections against AI chatbots. My Youth AI Privacy Act answers that call by prohibiting AI companies from using invasive and manipulative design tricks that exploit young people’s emotions and foster dependency on AI chatbots. I look forward to working with my Senate Commerce Committee colleagues to advance this legislation.”\n\n“The Becca Schmill Foundation is proud to endorse Senator Markey's Youth AI Privacy Act. Children and teens deserve strong protections in the age of AI. At a time when young people continue to face growing risks to their privacy and safety, this legislation provides urgently needed safeguards and accountability. We applaud Senator Markey's leadership and urge Congress to pass the Youth AI Privacy Act to help ensure that young people’s rights and well-being come first,” said Deb Schmill, mother of Becca Schmill, forever 18, Founder of the Becca Schmill Foundation.\n\n“AI technology without appropriate safeguards poses a major threat to our children’s mental and physical well-being. We’ve seen far too many young people manipulated, traumatized, or even driven to self-harm or suicide by AI chatbots,” said Julie Scelfo, Founder and Executive Director of Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA). “The Youth AI Privacy Act, which would require AI chatbot companies to incorporate strong privacy and safety features in their products before allowing kids to use them, is a major step in the right direction to keep our children safe online. MAMA members nationwide applaud Senator Markey's commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of America’s children and families and urge the Senate to quickly pass this critical bill.”\n\n“Big Tech turned social media into a machine for harming kids, and now it's doing the same with AI chatbots: mining children’s conversations for data to monetize, profiling their behavior, and designing features to keep them hooked. Senator Markey's bill draws a line in the sand: if you want to put a chatbot in front of a kid, you need to prove you built it safely first. Big Tech companies had every chance to build safe products on their own, but they chose profits instead. Kids have already died because AI products were rushed out without guardrails. Congress waited too long on social media – with the Youth AI Privacy Act, it has the chance to learn from that mistake. Acting now will save lives,” said Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project.\n\n“AI chatbots are designed to capture children's attention and profi","url":"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/momentum-builds-for-senator-markeys-legislation-to-protect-kids-from-ai-chatbots","published_at":"2026-07-21","ai_topics":["children","privacy","safety","regulation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Markey touts growing endorsements for his Youth AI Privacy Act to bar manipulative AI chatbot design and protect kids' privacy.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["a4a5a5253240cbbd"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"a4a5a5253240cbbd","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"3fe3cf36f61679b6","politician_id":"M000133","type":"press_release","content":"Discussion Draft Text (PDF)\n\nWashington (July 13, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and co-chair of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, today released a discussion draft of legislation that would create a national framework to prevent increased energy costs, pollution, and adverse health harms related to the rapid buildout of data centers and associated fossil fuel infrastructure.\n\n“Communities are organizing and demanding action to protect their air, water, energy bills, and quality of life from the tsunami of data centers around the country,” said Senator Markey. “For an issue as fast-moving and important to American families - the surging proliferation of data centers - we need a national framework that can proactively tackle all of these issues together. I will be working with communities, workers, and other stakeholders to learn from state and local level measures, and collaborate on this comprehensive platform that prioritizes protection, builds community capacity and resilience, and takes action against rising pollution and rising energy bills due to data centers.”\n\nThe Protecting Communities from Data Center Impacts Act would:\n\nRequire data centers to receive a certificate from the federal government prior to permitting and construction that affirms the data center will not harm the public interest and will meet minimum standards for energy, environmental, and economic impacts\n\nProvide grants to build community capacity and support technical assistance to monitor and mitigate air, water, noise, and other environmental and public health impacts from data centers\n\nRequire data centers pay for necessary grid infrastructure and enter into agreements to reduce their energy demand during times of grid stress\n\nRequire data centers fund renewable energy and storage to meet their capacity needs, rather than use on-site diesel\n\nRequire high labor standards for construction\n\nSenator Markey is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s “race to the bottom” regulatory approach for AI data centers and a leader in advocating for stronger monitoring and mitigation of environmental and health impacts associated with data center buildout.\n\nLast week, Senator Markey released his AI Accountability Agenda: Taking Power Back from Big Tech, a comprehensive agenda for responding to the risks posed by AI that lays out specific policy proposals to protect communities from the immediate harms of AI.\n\nIn June, Senator Markey wrote to EPA Administrator Zeldin to demand the withdrawal of a proposed rule that undermines Clean Air Act permitting standards to facilitate the buildout of data centers and associated fossil fuel infrastructure.\n\nSenator Markey previously reintroduced his Artificial Intelligence (AI) Environmental Impacts Act, legislation that would require data center operators to report the full range of their facilities’ environmental impacts.\n\nIn November 2025, Senator Markey wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging the agency to ensure that increased and projected energy demand from data centers does not result in unjust or unreasonable rate hikes for American households.\n\nIn September 2025, Senator Markey wrote to the EPA in opposition to the agency’s initial announcement of plans to roll back the NSR program for data center buildout.\n\nIn July 2025, Senator Markey hosted a roundtable discussion titled The Data Center Next Door: Hidden Costs and Harms of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptomining to highlight the adverse environmental, health, climate, and energy cost impacts of data center proliferation in communities across the United States, and to condemn the deregulatory actions set forth in President Trump’s AI Action Plan. On the day of the roundtable, Senator Markey also released a storybook to spotlight the experiences of American families living with data centers in their backyard.\n\n###","url":"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-releases-discussion-draft-of-legislation-to-create-a-national-framework-to-address-data-center-harm","published_at":"2026-07-13","ai_topics":["data_centers","regulation","transparency"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Markey proposes a national regulatory framework requiring federal certification and environmental, energy, and labor standards for AI data centers.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["c5e3b9e5af0b0984"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"c5e3b9e5af0b0984","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"adf2b49fb02fbb75","politician_id":"M000133","type":"press_release","content":"Includes new legislation requiring data centers fund clean energy and storage to meet their capacity needs\n\nFull Agenda (PDF)\n\nBoston (July 10, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today released his AI Accountability Agenda: Taking Power Back from Big Tech, a new vision for artificial intelligence (AI) policy in Congress. The comprehensive agenda responds to the risks posed by AI and lays out specific policy proposals to protect communities from the immediate harms of AI.\n\nSenator Markey is releasing his agenda as the American people reckon with the real threats posed by AI. While Big Tech is making billions off its pitch that the benefits of AI are nearly limitless, the costs and the risks — to kids, workers, the planet, our health, our rights, and our communities — are nearly limitless as well. Senator Markey’s agenda proposes a comprehensive framework and common-sense legislation to address the harms that the American people are facing every day from AI.\n\nSenator Markey said, “For too long, the conversation about artificial intelligence has been about what’s next — the next breakthrough, the next headline, the next promise of the future. But the American people need more than future promises; they need answers to what’s happening right now. From discriminatory algorithms deciding who gets a home or a loan, data centers invading their neighborhoods, employers using AI to surveil and control workers, or kids turning to chatbots in moments of crisis and getting coached toward harm instead of help, AI is defining daily life right now, and people need protections.”\n\nSenator Markey continued, “The risks are the lived reality of AI for millions of Americans — and they deserve policymakers who are paying attention to their lives, not Big Tech’s bottom line. That is why I have been working for more than a decade to propose commonsense policies to take back unchecked power from Big Tech and put it into the hands of the American people. And it’s why today, I am releasing my AI Accountability Agenda — a set of real, actionable answers for the problems Americans are facing right now.”\n\nSenator Markey’s AI Accountability Agenda highlights six key priorities:\n\nGiving Power Back to Workers\n\nProtecting the Privacy and Safety of Children and Teens\n\nKeeping Civil Rights Safe from AI Bias\n\nPutting Humans First in Healthcare\n\nSafeguarding Against Energy and Environmental Impacts of Data Centers\n\nSharing the AI Wealth\n\n(1) Giving Power Back to Workers\n\nWorkers should not be the test subjects or casualties of unchecked automation, nor should AI give employers a blank check to surveil workers, replace human judgment with unaccountable algorithms, or eliminate jobs while shifting the costs onto workers and communities. To address this, Senator Markey has introduced:\n\nThe No Robot Bosses Act, which would put safeguards on the use of automated decision systems - including AI - to make work-related decisions such as hiring or firing.\n\nThe Stop Spying Bosses Act, which would curtail the growing use of surveillance technology in the workplace.\n\nThe Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which would prohibit dangerous speed quotas and that threaten warehouse worker safety and lead to high injury rates.\n\n(2) Protecting the Privacy and Safety of Children and Teens\n\nSenator Markey has introduced legislation that would ensure that Big Tech companies cannot exploit, manipulate, and target children and teens for their own profits:\n\nThe Youth AI Privacy (YAP) Act, which would require artificial intelligence (AI) companies to implement privacy safeguards in their AI chatbots.\n\nThe Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), which passed out of the Senate by unanimous consent and would 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