NetFamilyNews.orgThe overall message from the Federal Trade Commission to mobile app developers has moved from guidance to what I’d call guidance+. The guidance appears to be growing teeth. The commission, which enforces COPPA (the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), reached a settlement with Path, a social network site and mobile app that agreed to pay [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission’s revisions to the COPPA Rule announced today (12/19/12), are aimed at syncing up a rule mandated by a 1998 law with today’s technology and with “the way children use the Internet, mobile devices and social networking,” the FTC says in its press release. For example, the personal information that services [...]
Only 20% of the 400 children’s apps the FTC analyzed “provided disclosures about their data collection practices,” the New York Times reported today – and the apps that did linked to long, dense privacy policies that few users could comprehend. The Federal Trade Commission’s announcement does not surprise; it’s an update of the Commission’s report [...]
A US law about children’s online services can really only regulate US-based children’s online services. It might influence foreign regulators but it has no jurisdiction over sites and services based outside the US and can’t stop US users from leaving compliant services and going to noncompliant ones outside the US (or in it, for that [...]
It’s tough to be the FTC – or anyone else trying to make rules for user-driven (social) media. It’s hard enough to make static rules address fast-changing technology. Then there’s the problem of changing understanding of consumers – the intended beneficiaries of the rules and the users of user-driven media – as we all adjust [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission has turned this week’s wakeup call about mobile-app privacy into a conference call, adding kids’ privacy to the conversation. The title of its just-released report “Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures are Disappointing” (that’s the FTC authors’ cute italicization) summarizes the Commission’s conclusions well. But to make their point [...]
“Facebook will soon be on privacy probation, thanks to a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission,” PC World reports. It’s referring to a “consent agreement” about the FTC’s “reason to believe” that Facebook has committed “fraudulent, deceptive, [or] unfair business practices,” as the FTC put it in its press release – though “most of [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission has just announced its proposed changes for the 10-year-old Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the law that inadvertently created the social Web’s “minimum age” of 13 (in its effort to define an age when all children are developmentally able to protect their own privacy). Because COPPA requires children’s sites and [...]
Online advertisers have been testing US Web users’ tolerance for behavioral advertising (tracking our online activities or behaviors and targeting us with ads based on that automated tracking), and so far not many of us have been bothered by it. “Since last year, ad organizations in the US have been running a campaign designed to [...]
In its proposed settlement with Google, the Federal Trade Commission unveiled, in detail, what it sees as best practices for consumer privacy in digital media.
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