By July, Facebook, Google, Tumblr and others will likely be forced to remove photos, audio recordings or other personal identifiers of children — or else face stiff fines, thanks to updates to a 15-year-old law.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA
) was enacted in 1998. In 2011, the FTC beefed up the measure, preventing sites from collecting personal information from kids such as name, location and date of birth without a parent’s consent.
This July, new amendments for kids under 13 will go into effect, approved by the FTC in December
There are also new restrictions on tracking data, with cookies or a unique identifier that follow registrants from one site to another.
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