Social media sites are booming. The amount of personal information folks are choosing to post to them, such as photos, videos, original stories, thoughts, gossip, and so on, is exploding. Marketers are drooling at the prospect of using all that “free” information. Well, it’s really not free, folks. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘COPPA’
Email is for “Old People”: Do Lack of Laws Make IM and Texting Ripe for Exploiting Children & Teens?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007My 13-year-old-niece wrote an article for me about social engineering, and I got a chuckle out of her writing, “Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I only use email. I don’t have my own FaceBook site.”
Can you imagine email being old-fashioned?! Gosh, my hand-written letters must be prehistoric!
FTC’s COPPA Report Recommends Larger Penalties and More Education
Monday, March 5th, 2007The February 2007 FTC Report to Congress, “Implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act” (COPPA) provides a good look into the compliance actions and failures of numerous organizations to appropriately comply with this law designed to protect the privacy of children under 13 years of age.
FTC’s COPPA Report Recommends Larger Penalties and More Education
Monday, March 5th, 2007The February 2007 FTC Report to Congress, “Implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act” (COPPA) provides a good look into the compliance actions and failures of numerous organizations to appropriately comply with this law designed to protect the privacy of children under 13 years of age.
