Volume: 8 Issue: 9
(September 2011)
Keywords:
us
regulator
seeks
comments
regulation
child
privacy
federal
trade
commission
(ftc
put
forward
draft
proposal
amend
childrens
online
privacy
Jurisdictions:
US
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put forward a draft proposal to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) on 15 September 2011, proposing that the definition of 'personal data' be modified to include geo-location services and certain types of persistent identifiers used for functions other than websites' internal operations.