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Universal screen time standards
A new bill asks the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop new voluntary standards that would act as guidance for parents in managing screen time for children.
The Tracking Online Time And Limits Screen Time Act, unveiled on July 15 by Reps. Pat Harrigan, D-N.C., and George Whitesides, D-Calif., asks NIST to solicit feedback from appropriate stakeholders to develop best practices for setting screen time limits on various devices for children, with the goal of developing a universal screen time standard.
Those stakeholders include various government officials — including the chair of the Federal Trade Commission and the surgeon general — as well as privacy advocates, international standards-setting bodies and organizations composed of children's doctors.
“Parents know exactly how frustrating this is,” Harrigan said in a press release. “You can set limits on your child's phone, but then they move to a tablet,...
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