Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Parental Data Rights Act, new legislation that would require Big Tech companies to give parents control over their children’s data and hold accountable companies that fail to comply. Senator Hawley’s legislation follows news of a new online tool, Take it Down, that aims to give control to users to remove explicit images and videos of themselves as children from the internet. The tool is reportedly operated by the...
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New Hawley Op-Ed: ‘Congress must act to keep kids off social media’
By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | Feb. 16, 2023 | Washington Post This Congress is less than two months old, and a good many Capitol watchers have already written it off as a lost cause. With control split between Republicans and Democrats, can anything get done? Of course it can. Lawmakers can enact transformative change almost overnight — if they have the will to act. And I can think of at least one nonpartisan issue that deserves this kind of urgency: protecting children...
NEW: Hawley Introduces Two Bills to Protect Kids Online, Fight Back Against Big Tech
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced two bills to protect kids online and prevent harm by social media companies. The Making Age-Verification Technology Uniform, Robust, and Effective Act (MATURE Act) would enforce a minimum age requirement of 16 years old for all users on social media platforms, and the Federal Social Media Research Act would commission a government report on the harm of social media for kids. “Children suffer every day from the...
Hawley, Buck Introduce New Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the No TikTok on United States Devices Act to prohibit the Chinese-based TikTok app from being downloaded on U.S. devices and ban commercial activity with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. “TikTok poses a threat to all Americans who have the app on their devices. It opens the door for the Chinese Communist Party to access Americans’ personal information, keystrokes, and location through aggressive data...
Hawley Announces New Legislation to Ban TikTok Nationwide
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he would introduce new legislation to ban TikTok in the United States. Senator Hawley’s No TikTok on Government Devices Act was signed into law last year. He originally introduced the legislation in 2020 and it unanimously passed the Senate later that year. In April 2021, Senator Hawley reintroduced the legislation and it unanimously passed in the Senate Homeland Security...
Hawley on Twitter Files: FBI Interference in Elections is ‘Biggest Threat to Our Constitutional Democracy’
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statements on the latest update to the Twitter Files, revealing extensive collusion between the FBI and Twitter to suppress reporting on Hunter Biden and interfere in multiple presidential elections.
Hawley Demands Apple Condemn CCP COVID Crackdown, Reduce Reliance on Foreign Labor
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Apple's Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook urging him to reduce Apple's dependency on foreign labor in China and reshore production to the United States. Senator Hawley also called on Apple to explain why they limited the iPhone AirDrop feature in China, widely used by anti-CCP protestors, and respond to reports that they have threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store. Read the full...
Twitter Whistleblower: Engineers Have Access to Personal User Data, Can ‘Tweet as Anybody’
Today in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, Twitter whistleblower and former head of security for Twitter, who revealed that over 4,000 Twitter engineers have access to user data, including geolocation data, that could be used to dox users. Mr. Zatko also revealed that Twitter engineers have the ability to “tweet as anybody” and may have done so. "That is a significant concern, 4,000 people with the ability to dox...
Hawley Calls for FTC Review of Amazon’s One Medical Acquisition
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into Amazon’s planned acquisition of 1Life Healthcare, a medical company that oversees an extensive network of primary care providers. If allowed to go forward, this transaction will give Amazon access to a healthcare practice operating more than 180 medical offices throughout the United States. “This particular...
Hawley, Colleagues Join Warner in Reintroducing Bipartisan Bill to Encourage Competition in Social Media
The ACCESS Act will require the largest social media companies to make data portable and services interoperable U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and a group of bipartisan colleagues recently reintroduced the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act.This bipartisan legislation encourages market-based competition to dominant social media platforms by requiring that the largest companies make user data portable...