'Government should adopt US trade bill amendment to remove threat to online child safety laws' Tech giants have previously used US trade deals to secure opt-outs from other countries' online regulations and laws 18 January 2021 • 12:30pm Tech giants have successfully lobbied for protections from liability to be inserted into US trade deals with countries such as Mexico and Japan Credit: PA The US-UK Trade Bill poses a threat to children’s online protections, but tomorrow (Tuesday) Parliament has a very straightforward opportunity to remove this threat. Since then, a cross party group of parliamentarians (including two former Culture Secretaries) have written to Liz Truss, the Secretary of State for Trade, asking for confirmation that the UK’s ‘specific and admirable advances in data protection for children’ will not be sacrificed, but so far to no avail.