Entries tagged with: Child Online Protection Act
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FTC Rejects Industry Effort to Delay Children’s Privacy Rules
The Federal Trade Commission has rejected an effort by several trade groups to delay implementation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, currently scheduled to take effect on July 1. In voting unanimously to retain the date, the FTC...
Consumer Groups Oppose Delay for New Children’s Privacy Rules
A group of consumer, privacy, and children's advocates wrote to the Federal Trade Commission to oppose an industry effort to delay implementation of the new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rule. The groups noted that two-and-a-half years have passed since...
FTC Reaches Settlement with Mobile App Path over Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with the social networking app Path over charges that the app secretly collected information from mobile users' address books without their consent. The FTC also fined the company $800,000 for violating the Children's...
FTC Releases Updated Children’s Online Privacy Rule
The Federal Trade Commission has updated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The new Rule expands the definition of personal information to include geolocation information and persistent identifiers (or "cookies)", and prevents third-party advertisers from secretly collecting children’s personal information...
FTC Report Finds Privacy Problems for Children’s Mobile Apps
A report by the Federal Trade Commission found little progress on transparency for child-directed mobile applications. The FTC surveyed apps from Google Play and Apple App stores and concluded that "many apps included interactive features or shared kids' information with...
Pew Survey Finds Most Parents Concerned About Children's Online Privacy
A new report from the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society finds that 81% of parents are concerned about how much information advertisers can learn about their child's online behavior. Also, 69% of parents of...
EPIC Supports New Children’s Privacy Rule
EPIC submitted comments on the Federal Trade Commission's revisions to the proposed Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule. EPIC said that it supported the new definitions of "operator" and "website or online service directed to children," which hold child-directed websites...
FTC Proposes Additional Changes to Children’s Online Privacy Rule
The Federal Trade Commission proposed additional changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule. The revised rule would clarify that operators of websites who choose to use advertising services and plug-ins that collect data about children would have to...
FTC Announces Settlement with RockYou Over Security Flaws, COPPA Violations
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with the social game site RockYou over charges that the site's poor security allowed hackers to access the personal information of 32 million users. The FTC also alleged that RockYou violated the Children's...
FTC Report Shows Privacy Problems with Mobile Apps
The Federal Trade Commission issued a report today that found widespread failure among app stores and app developers to provide information to parents about the collection and use of children's data. The report noted that there are currently more than...
EPIC Submits Comments on Children's Online Privacy Rule
EPIC submitted comments to the FTC on a proposed rule for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The proposed rule would revise the definition of Personally Identifiable Information to include identifiers such as cookies, IP addresses, and geolocation information. The...
FTC Enforces COPPA Against Website that Collected Children's Personal Information without Parental Consent
The Federal Trade Commission settled a complaint against the website Skid-e-kids after the operator violated both the Commission’s Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule and the website's own privacy policy by collecting personal information from approximately 5,600 children without obtaining...
FTC Finds Mobile Phone App Violated Children's Privacy Law
W3 Innovations, a company that develops mobile phone games, settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission for violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the first settlement concerning a mobile application, the Commission imposed a fine of...
Federal Trade Commission Settles Kids' Privacy Case with Playdom
Playdom has agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges that it violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The virtual game company failed to obtain notice and consent from parents before the collection and use of children's information....
New Social Networking Privacy Poll Released, Kids Privacy Campaign Launched
According to a national poll from Common Sense Media, three out of four parents believe that social network services do not adequately protect children's online privacy. The Common Sense Media "Protect Our Privacy - Protect Our Kids" campaign calls for...
Study Finds that Children’s Privacy has been Compromised
A Fordham Law School study found that state educational databases across the country ignore key privacy protections for the nation’s school children. The study reports that at least 32% of states warehouse children’s social security numbers; at least 22% of...
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Introduction | COPPA's Provisions | Criticism | News | Resources | Cases Top News : () Coalition Alleges Children's Privacy Violation. EPIC and 11 consumer organizations alleged in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today that Amazon.com...
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Internet Censorship Appeal
The Supreme Court denied the last appeal of the Government from an Appeals Court decision that turned down the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). COPA establishes criminal penalties for any online commercial distribution of material harmful to...
