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By Chloe Albanesius
The Federal Trade Commission today published proposed rules intended to better protect the personal, online information of children.
The recommendations suggest extending the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to third parties like ad networks and plugins. Among other things, it also updates the definition of personally identifiable information to include things like cookies and IP addresses.
COPPA, which requires parental permission for the collection of data for kids under 13, has not been updated since 1998—before Facebook, Twitter, or smartphones. Given those vast changes in the technology landscape, the FTC has been reviewing COPPA in the hopes of bringing it more in line with 2012 realities. After asking for public comments on the matter in 2010, the agency in Sept. 2011 released several recommendations for how the law might be updated and opened that up to public comment.
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By Chloe Albanesius
The Federal Trade Commission today published proposed rules intended to better protect the personal, online information of children.
The recommendations suggest extending the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to third parties like ad networks and plugins. Among other things, it also updates the definition of personally identifiable information to include things like cookies and IP addresses.
COPPA, which requires parental permission for the collection of data for kids under 13, has not been updated since 1998—before Facebook, Twitter, or smartphones. Given those vast changes in the technology landscape, the FTC has been reviewing COPPA in the hopes of bringing it more in line with 2012 realities. After asking for public comments on the matter in 2010, the agency in Sept. 2011 released several recommendations for how the law might be updated and opened that up to public comment.
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