COPPA and AUP's

[Kate Stirk <STIRKK@ANNUNCIATIONACADEMY.ORG>]

I asked my son, the second year law student (am I proud or what? :))) to
decipher the COPPA stuff for me. This is his opinion....

-Kate Stirk, Media Specialist
Annunciation Catholic Academy
stirkk@annunciationacademy.org

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I read the article and went to the FTC site. I found information about
it
under Consumer Protection, Children's Issues. There are a couple of
links
there that talk about the Act.  I also read the text of the act.

I don't see that it applies to you at all.  The thrust of the Act is the
requirement that sites collecting information from children under 13
that
could be used to personally identify them must have a Privacy statement
and
must have a mechanism through which Parental Consent can be verified.

I looked at Annunciation's site and it doesn't seem that it collects any
information at all. As to the "Acceptable Use Policy," I am taking you
to
mean that you are concerned that Annunciation could run afoul of the law
by
allowing children to access sites that illegally collect information
from
children under 13. As I read the law, that does not seem to be the case.

The wiredkids.org article mentioned schools, but I read that to mean
that
the author was expressing concern that the scope of the law would be
expanded to include all websites that could be accessed by children, and
that would be based on what schools allow children to access.  I did not
take it to mean that schools need to narrow their acceptable use
policies to
exclude sites that collect information from children under 13, and the
law
certainly does not discuss that issue.

The text of the statute is available on the FTC website at
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm

Information on "How to Comply With The Children's Online Privacy
Protection
Rule" is available at
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm

Hope this helps.
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I hope this helps someone else, too!

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