FTC’s Proposed COPPA Rules Update: New Limitations on the Use of Children’s Personal Information

The #FTC proposes some incremental updates to the COPPA Rule, which reflect its enforcement actions since 2017. The main changes aim to limit the commercial or advertising use of children's personal information, reduce the retention of such information, enhance the security of children's personal information, and clarify the role of schools in giving consent to online services that collect personal information from children. Some of the most important updates

For companies engaged in health care, EdTech, On-line education, Social, and other sectors, this can be relevant.

1- Separating Verifiable Parental Consent for the Disclosure of Children’s Personal Information.

2. Reinforcing the Rule Prohibiting the Conditioning of Participation on the Collection of Personal Information.

3. Narrowing the Internal Operations Exception.

4. Limiting the Use of Push Notifications to Encourage the Use of a Service.

5. Limiting the School Authorization Exception:?Operators of some ed tech services rely on schools to provide verifiable consent on behalf of parents to the collection of students’ personal information.

6. Reinforcing Transparency in the Safe Harbor Program.

7. Implementing New Data Security Requirements.

8. Implementing Data Retention and Deletion Requirements.

The full details are on Fenwick & West recent update.

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#COPPA - The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) is a regulation enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States.

For more details, you can refer to the official FTC page on COPPA2. In summary, COPPA ensures that children’s personal information is safeguarded when they interact online.

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