The FTC doesn’t “intend to play ‘gotcha'” with...
The FTC doesn’t “intend to play ‘gotcha'” with companies with the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act rule, which took effect Monday, said Maneesha Mithal, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection associate director. Her email to us responded to a…
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report (CD July 1 p12) that the commission isn’t expected to take enforcement actions against websites making a good-faith effort to comply with the COPPA update. Agency officials are “committed to educating businesses in how to comply with COPPA,” which is why they “put out numerous FAQs, released a business education guide, and have spoken at numerous public outreach events,” said Mithal. “We will exercise prosecutorial discretion in the early months after the Rule becomes effective, where a business has attempted to comply with the Rule in good faith."