Increasing mobile device use by young children heightens the...
Increasing mobile device use by young children heightens the need for an update to the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, said Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, in a joint statement Monday. “In the 21st century…
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parents now have to plan for their children to crawl, walk, run and browse,” they said. The statement was in response to a new Common Sense Media survey (http://bit.ly/17nwr2t) about mobile device use among children up to 8 years old. The percentage of children under 8 who have used some type of mobile device has doubled in the past two years, from 38 percent to 72 percent, the survey found. In 2011, Markey and Barton introduced the Do Not Track Kids Act, which would forbid online stores from collecting children’s information without parental consent. And even if companies received consent, they would not be able to use any collected information for marketing purposes. In their statement, the two lawmakers called for the bill to be reconsidered. “Increasing use of mobile devices by very young children coupled with rapid change in technological development makes it more important than ever to put federal legislation on the books that provides parents with the tools to protect their children online,” they said. “The Do Not Track Kids legislation would update COPPA for this new Internet ecosystem, establish new protections for the personal information of children and teens and ensure that parents have the tools they need to protect their children’s privacy.”