We conitnue our series on the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act, or COPPA, with a double-dose discussion on the meaning of “personal information” under the law and the effect of the proposed changes.
 

You can also read my overview of COPPA.  
 

We continue our video series on the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act with the basic guidelines the Federal Trade Commission lists to make sure you are complying with COPPA.
You have to excuse the interruption in the middle of the video for the break regarding CLE verification code which you can ignore.

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I did a Lawlines CLE entitled Online Marketing to Minors: Legal Pitfalls & Ramifications.  Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting some clips from the presentation here that should give you a good idea of proposals the FTC is making to update the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act. For a basic introduction … Continue Reading

We’ve discussed contracting with minors and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in our prior two parts of the series.  There’s more to it than just those issues and we wrap up the series with some recent troubles from Facebook.
Facebook forbids thirteen-year-olds from creating profiles and those under 18 to have their parents’ permission.  The … Continue Reading

In my prior post I talked about the Texas Legislature’s proposal to make parents go to education classes on the danger of teen sexting.  Now, the Legislature is proposing to punish the parents of kids who engage in cyberbulling. 

BEWARE:  The future evil cyberbullies
HB 1467 was introduced yesterday which proposes changes to the Education Code giving … Continue Reading