FTC Issues Enforcement Policy Statement on COPPA and Voice Recordings
Susan Hintze
Founder & Co-Managing Partner at Hintze Law & Founder of Hintze Data Advisors. IAPP Board of Directors. IAPP Westin Emeritus Fellow.
By Smriti Chandrashekar
On October 23, 2017, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued guidance on the online collection of certain audio voice recordings from children under the age of 13. The guidance, in the form of an “enforcement policy statement” discusses the application of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) to such recordings.
In 2013, the FTC amended the COPPA Rule to expand the definition of “personal information” to include, a photograph, video, or audio file that contains a child’s image or voice. The latest guidance provides a path to avoid enforcement of the COPPA Rule for online services that collect audio files containing a child’s voice and convert such audio files to text for the performance of a specific instruction or request.
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