It informs apps developers that the FTC is launching non-public investigations into whether some "entities in the mobile app marketplace" are violating the Children's OnlinePrivacyProtectionAct. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a...
COPPA is the Federal Children’s OnlinePrivacyProtectionAct of 1998, which prohibits sites from knowingly disclosing children’s personally identifiable information. Citing people who have spoken with Facebook executives about the project, WSJ.com...
In August 2011, W3 Innovations, LLC, doing business under the less-than-encouraging moniker Broken Thumbs, settled with the FTC on charges that it violated the Children’s OnlinePrivacyProtectionAct (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally...
Meanwhile, Smith is again pushing his Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011; it has been amended, passed the required committees, and was put back on the Union Calendar December 16, 2011.
If the promotion is being conducted online and will be open to children under the age of 13 (or if it will be attractive to such children), promotion sponsors will also need to consider how to comply with the Children's OnlinePrivacyProtection...
The warning
discussed that Google Video enables children to "easily access and view videos
with sexual themes and off-color material" all for free. Google's Picasa getting web albums; New York State raps Google over its video
content and...
Google's Picasa getting web albums; New York State raps Google over its video
content and children; Google not obeying the noindex stop sign? The warning
discussed that Google Video enables children to "easily access and view videos
with sexual...
ProtectionAct. Moreover, since the data is divorced from user info, you have no idea what
searches are being done by children or not. Far better would be to do some searches that you think children and teens are
actually doing, such as by doing...