Maryland bills that would extend Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)...
Maryland bills that would extend Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protections to in-state children would add teeth to self-regulatory efforts, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said during an address on Tuesday at a Direct Marketing Association conference. Gansler is…
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the president of the National Association of Attorneys General. The bills would allow Gansler’s office to prosecute websites that violate COPPA without involving the FTC and would require that websites directed to children label advertisements as such. “We got a ton of pushback from you guys, mostly,” on the bills, he said, speaking to a room of online advertising industry members. Although Gansler said there have been pushes to “table it for a year and come back next year,” a spokesperson from his office said he’s still working with industry members to craft amendments to the already-introduced legislation.