At the time, Federal Trade Commission chair Jon Leibowitz told Consumer Reports, “We are very concerned about kids eliding around COPPA’s restrictions. COPPA is the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which prohibits sites...
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 Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally...
Further, it would appear that they are working in concert with other (unvetted and unsanctioned) organizations to carefully circumvent the spirit (and in some cases the letter) of the Second Life Terms of Service, quite a number of data protection...
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 Online Privacy Protection...
