To Do: Update COPPA
Recommendation
The FTC should update its rule for the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA).
Details
The FTC should update its rule for the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) to reflect technological changes since 2013, including by allowing operators to conduct an analysis of their audience composition to avoid classification as a child-directed service, while maintaining COPPA’s actual knowledge standard and remaining within the law’s scope of protecting children’s individually identifying information.
Keep reading:
▪ Ash Johnson, “How to Address Children’s Online Safety in the United States” (ITIF, June 2024), https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/03/how-to-address-childrens-online-safety-in-united-states/.
