UKNM: Re: standard ad industry measures / dp for kids

[rODbegbie]

> data protection & kids. if you're collecting data from under 18s, are

there

> special legal constaints, or is there simply a voluntary code subscribed

to

> by the (online) ad industry? any outside-uk perspective on this would be

> useful as well. . .


If you've noticed a spate of "People under 13, click here" links on US

sites, it's down to COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of

1998), which came into effect two months ago.


There's a good summary at

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm


rOD


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