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FTC still not satisfied with kid app privacy

December 10, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

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 last February (see this). But it says "little or … [Read more...] about FTC still not satisfied with kid app privacy

Filed Under: apps, geolocation, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media Tagged With: children's privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, mobile apps, mobile privacy

COPPA has likely increased minors’ risk: Study

November 29, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

If there were no Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, teens would be safer in social media, a new study from researchers at New York University indicates (pdf). Without COPPA, children under 13 would have little to no reason to lie about their age to set up a Facebook account, for example (this would be true of any COPPA-compliant site U13s want to join). We all know that, right? We also … [Read more...] about COPPA has likely increased minors’ risk: Study

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: children's privacy, COPPA, Facebook, New York University, online privacy, Social Media, social networking

Today’s Net, kids & COPPA: Our comment to the FTC

September 25, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

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 matter). So, by the global nature of the Internet, there's no … [Read more...] about Today’s Net, kids & COPPA: Our comment to the FTC

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children's privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, Internet safety, proposed revisions, Social Media

Under-age on Facebook: New study

May 10, 2011 By Anne 6 Comments

The Consumer Reports headline reads, "That Facebook friend might be 10 years old, and other troubling news," but – interestingly – fewer and fewer parents find it troubling. Most of today's headlines about under-13 social networkers are about the Consumer Reports survey, which found that 20 million, or about 13% of Facebook's 150 million active US users are under 18 and 7.5 million, or about 5%, … [Read more...] about Under-age on Facebook: New study

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Research Tagged With: age minimum, children's privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, Facebook, online safety, Parenting, social media research, U13, underage

Differing views on COPPA

April 29, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

While the Federal Trade Commission is taking a fresh look at the Children's Privacy Protection Act of 1998, the Senate Commerce Committee is taking a look of its own – in the form of a hearing today on children's privacy and new technologies called by the Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee. Two witnesses at the hearing – American University professor Kathryn Montgomery … [Read more...] about Differing views on COPPA

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Privacy Tagged With: Berin Szoka, children's privacy, COPPA, Kathryn Montgomery, Marc Rotenberg, online safety, Privacy

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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
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The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
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Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
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"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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