An FTC official and a former Myspace officer will testify at the...
An FTC official and a former Myspace officer will testify at the House Commerce Manufacturing Subcommittee hearing Wednesday at 9 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, reviewing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the subcommittee said…
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Monday. The witness list includes Mary Koelbel Engle, associate director of the FTC Division of Advertising Practices; Hemanshu Nigam, CEO of SSP Blue and former chief security officer for News Corp. and Myspace; Morgan Reed, executive director of the Association for Competitive Technology; Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute; Kathryn Montgomery, director of the Ph.D. program at American University’s School of Communications, who helped draft COPPA; and Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, president of Common Sense Media. The subcommittee memo said “issues for discussion” would include what tools are available for parents to protect their children’s privacy online; whether Congress needs to revisit the 13-year-old law in light of “technological advances”; whether the under-13 threshold is still “appropriate” and the “constitutional and technological implications” of raising the age threshold; “to what extent” are the privacy protections appropriate for all ages; whether the proposed expansion of factors that determine if a website is “targeted” at COPPA-applicable users would constitute a “de facto increase” in the age threshold; whether the COPPA safe harbor regime is effective and could it be used in other privacy contexts; and could the expanded definition of “personal information” in the FTC’s COPPA rule become a “precedent in the broader online privacy context."