1. Urge Congress to Defend Kids’s On-line Privateness
Threats to youngsters’s privateness are rising at alarming charges, particularly within the digital area. Web corporations are amassing youngsters’s knowledge, together with studying knowledge like pondering traits, studying trajectory, response time, pages learn, and extra. This type of knowledge can be utilized by entrepreneurs to focus on youngsters who can’t differentiate between promoting and sincere content material. The dangers of this type of focused advertising and marketing to youngsters restrict their potential self-development in childhood, adolescence, and probably maturity. At its worst, it may severely hurt their psychological and emotional well being and bodily well-being.
In July of 2022, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation permitted two bipartisan payments that may replace laws to extend the age for on-line safety for kids, S.1628 and S. 3663. The Kids and Teenagers’ On-line Privateness and Safety Act is a legislation from 1998 that S.1628 seeks to replace to extend the age of protections from 13 to fifteen years outdated. Because of this web corporations can be prohibited from amassing the private info of anybody beneath 16 years outdated with out consent. The invoice would additionally ban focused advertising and marketing to these youngsters. The invoice would create a “Digital Advertising Invoice of Rights for Minors” and would implement a Youth Privateness and Advertising Division on the FTC. Children On-line Security Act (S.3663) was additionally permitted by the committee and would give mother and father extra management over their youngsters’s on-line actions to “higher defend their well being and well-being”.
Supporting measures to enhance youngsters’s safety would fulfill the Church’s name to advertise baby safety insurance policies, and to manage expertise corporations to guard youngsters and youth from unreasonable surveillance, private knowledge assortment, addictive options, and dangerous content material. This laws helps to create bodily and emotionally protected environments for kids.
2. Urge Congress to Cross the Wholesome Meals, Wholesome Children Act
This week the president will host the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. This convention is aimed toward galvanizing a whole-of-society technique to handle the challenges of meals insecurity and lack of entry to nutritious meals that negatively affect the well being and high quality of lifetime of so many People. Within the wake of the primary White Home Starvation Convention in additional than 50 years, it’s time for Congress to move the Wholesome Meals, Wholesome Children Act.
H.R.8450, the Wholesome Meals, Wholesome Children Act will reauthorize important baby vitamin packages whereas offering essential reforms that may additional the objective of ending baby starvation. Particularly, H.R.8450 would:
- Increase entry to free college meals
- Modernize the Particular Supplemental Vitamin Program for Ladies, Infants, and Kids (WIC)
- Deal with summer time meals insecurity by means of adjustments to the Summer time EBT Program
- Enhance college meal capability and infrastructure
- Strengthen the Little one and Grownup Care Meals Program
Congress should work urgently to handle the problem of kid starvation. With the highlight on this subject by the White Home Starvation Convention, we should work collectively to feed the hungry, as Christ calls us to do within the gospels.
Please ship a message to your Representatives and Senators and urge them to prioritize the safety of youngsters within the digital age and urge them to move the Wholesome Meals, Wholesome Children Act!
Choices to Take Motion:
- Signal on to the letters on the Motion Desk exterior the church on Sunday morning.
- Obtain a duplicate of the Motion Letter that you could signal and mail.
Letter for California or Letter for Outside California - Click on on the hyperlinks to the Episcopal Public Coverage Actions for On Line Privacy and Healthy Meals.
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