Ensuring Your Children's Safety and Privacy

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) directed the FTC to develop various regulations governing the behavior of U.S. Web sites oriented toward children under the age of 13. You can read the text of the law and its resulting regulations, in the original legalese, at http://www.cdt.org/legislation/105th/privacy/coppa.html and at http://www.cdt.org/legislation/105th/privacy/64fr59888.pdf, respectively. A summary of the regulations, which went into effect in April 2000, is available at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/coppa/index.html. The key points of the act are as follows:

  • Web sites oriented toward children are required to include a link to a statement describing their information ...

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