children’s online privacy protection act

FTC investigating TikTok over privacy and security

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Mar 27, 2024

The FTC is probing TikTok over an alleged violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection rule, which requires companies to notify parents and obtain consent before collecting data from children under 13.

Childhood online privacy act may be toughened to fight ‘increasingly sophisticated digital tools to surveil children’

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 21, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how online companies can track and advertise to children, including turning off targeted ads to kids under 13 by default and limiting push notifications.