The FTC seeks comment by Oct. 18 on a...
The FTC seeks comment by Oct. 18 on a safe-harbor program under the agency’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule from the “kidSAFE” seal program, said the commission in a news release Monday (http://1.usa.gov/17Em0Us). The COPPA-related program made the…
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request Aug. 15 (http://1.usa.gov/18si6kt), which said it has 100-plus members for a “seal of approval” for kid-friendly websites, mobile apps, tablets and other interactive products. To be certified under the program, compliance must be shown with safety and privacy guidelines “modeled after the” revised COPPA rule, said the application. It said the rule took effect July 1. The agency may bring cases under the new rule only against blatant violations, as opposed to companies trying to be compliant, industry officials have said (CD July 1 p12). Since the initial kids-privacy rule took effect in 2001, the FTC said it has approved safe-harbor programs from Aristotle Inc., the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit, Entertainment Software Rating Board, TRUSTe and Privo. Comments on the new request from Samet Privacy Inc.’s kidSAFE program can be filed at http://bit.ly/18pQGG9 and should mention “kidSAFE Application for Safe Harbor, Project No. P-135418,” said an FTC notice to appear in the Federal Register (http://1.usa.gov/15ykeEV).