The Safer Internet for Kids requires a hard look at privacy.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dramale. Molly.

On a recent episode of our show,

on a recent episode of our show

we had Senator Amy Klobuchar share her take on January's

congressional hearings. You remember the one with five tech executives including

Mark Zuckerberg doing their best to stall in the face of searing questions about how to keep kids

safe online. Senator Klobuchar told us that hearing may have actually moved the

needle on that issue. She stressed to us how they serve to educate the public

and help lawmakers get pledges of support from tech CEOs on specific bills on the record.

In the absence of federal rules though a patchwork of state laws

has filled the void. How's that going? Nicole Turner Lee is a senior fellow at the

Brookings Institution and she gave me the rundown.

States have pretty much been leading the charge and ensuring that they're creating

local legislative directives that assist in, you know, one identifying what those harms may be

and what type of enforcement they want to actually engage.

You know, the challenge, however however is I think first and foremost we really don't want to become a country where every state sort of has its own imperative on

monitoring or providing oversight and enforcement of social media companies.

But more importantly, you know, the type of legislative directives vary because the technology is different, right?

Well, how does having this kind of patchwork of laws in all these different states impact the federal

government as they try to reach a consensus on one law.

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