Guide To Compliance With The Amended COPPA Rule

What Is COPPA?

• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, enacted by Congress in 1998
• Congress directed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, to issue and enforce regulations concerning children's online privacy
• The FTC issued the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, effective April 21, 2000
• The FTC issued an amended COPPA Rule on December 12, 2012, with an effective date of July 1, 2013.
  
  

PURPOSE OF COPPA: To place parents in control over what information is collected online from their children under 13.

SCOPE OF COPPA: applies to the following three (3) categories of online operators:

1. Operators of commercial Web sites and online services (including mobile apps) directed to children under 13 that collect, use, or disclose personal information (PI) from children under 13 (including personal information about themselves, their parents, friends or other persons);