The FTC approved age-verification provider Aristotle International as a safe-harbor program under...
The FTC approved age-verification provider Aristotle International as a safe-harbor program under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The commission’s COPPA Rule allows industry groups or others to submit self-regulatory guidelines to the FTC for approval as a safe-harbor program.…
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In a letter (http://xrl.us/bmur8r) to Aristotle General Counsel Blair Richardson, dated Feb. 15 but only made public Friday, FTC Secretary Donald Clark said the commission received six comments responding to Aristotle’s application (WID July 26 p4), with “several” raising concerns about issues such as how Aristotle “will treat data collected from parents and children during the verification process, the components of member operators’ privacy policies, and Aristotle’s monitoring and enforcement of member operators.” But the commission was satisfied with Aristotle’s response to those comments and revised safe-harbor application submitted in November, Clark said. Aristotle is the fifth organization approved to run a safe-harbor program under the COPPA Rule, following the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Better Business Bureaus, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, TRUSTe and Privo.