Biden Calls For Limits on Children’s Data Collection for Ads (1)

President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass legislation limiting the collection and use of children’s data by social media platforms for targeted advertising in his first State of the Union speech.

“We must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit,” Biden said. “It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children.”

The focus on social media’s impacts on children is part of a broader mental health push that Biden is championing. Children’s advocates have criticized the platforms for ...