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Event Description
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission hosted a public workshop on October 7, 2019 to explore whether to update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule.
The Future of the COPPA Rule: An FTC Workshop examined whether to update the COPPA Rule in light of evolving business practices in the online children’s marketplace, including the increased use of Internet of Things devices, social media, educational technology, and general audience platforms hosting third-party child-directed content. The COPPA Rule, which was enacted in 2000 and updated in 2013, requires certain Web site operators to obtain parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13. Workshop topics included:
- How the development of new technologies or business models, the evolving nature of privacy harms, and changes in the way parents and children use websites and online services, affect children’s privacy today;
- How the Rule should address parental consent for education technology vendors that collect personal information consented to by schools, following on discussions that occurred during the FTC’s Student Privacy and Ed Tech workshop in December 2017;
- Whether the Rule should include a specific exception to parental consent for audio files containing a child's voice that website operators collect and then promptly delete;
- Whether the Rule should permit general audience platforms to rebut the presumption that all users of child-directed content are children, and if so, under what circumstances;
- Whether the revisions to the Rule made in 2013 have worked as intended or require modification; and
- Whether the Rule should be amended to better address websites and online services that do not include traditionally child-oriented activities, but that have large numbers of child users.
For a more detailed list of topics, see the .
The workshop was free and open to the public.
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8:30 am
Registration
9:00 am
Introductory Remarks
Jim Trilling
Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC9:05 am
Opening Remarks
Christine S. Wilson
Commissioner, FTC9:15 am
Presentation
Dr. Jenny Radesky
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School“The Digital Playground: App Design, Data Collection, and Policy Implications”
9:30 am
Panel 1: State of the World in Children’s Privacy
Panelists:
Phyllis Marcus
Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Laura Moy
Associate Professor & Associate Director, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown University Law Center
Jo Pedder
Head of Regulatory Strategy, United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office
Claire Quinn
Vice President, Compliance, PRIVO
Dr. Jenny Radesky
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School
Janne Salminen
Senior Legal Counsel, Rovio Entertainment CorporationModerators:
Peder Magee & Jim Trilling, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC10:50 am
Break
11:05 am
Remarks
Noah Joshua Phillips
Commissioner, FTC11:15 am
Panel 2: Scope of the COPPA Rule
Panelists:
Parry Aftab
Executive Director, The Cybersafety Group
Malik Ducard
Vice President of Content Partnerships, YouTube
James Dunstan
General Counsel, TechFreedom
Dona Fraser
Vice President, Children’s Advertising Review Unit, BBB National Programs, Inc.
Josh Golin
Executive Director, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Don McGowan
Chief Legal Officer & Business Affairs, The Pokémon Company InternationalModerators:
Peder Magee & Maneesha Mithal, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC12:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm
Presentation
Morgan Reed
President, ACT | The App Association“Developers and COPPA: Their Real-World Experience”
1:45 pm
Panel 3: Definitions, Exceptions, and Misconceptions
Panelists:
John E. Ahrens
CEO, Veratad Technologies, LLC
Ariel Fox Johnson
Senior Counsel, Policy & Privacy, Common Sense Media
Sheila A. Millar
Partner, Keller & Heckman LLP
Samantha Vargas Poppe
Principal, Equity Matters, LLC
Morgan Reed
President, ACT | The App Association
Steve Smith
CIO, Cambridge Public Schools, Massachusetts
Amelia Vance
Senior Counsel & Director of Education Privacy, Future of Privacy ForumModerators:
Kristin Cohen & Jim Trilling, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Presentation
Jonathan Mayer
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University“Technology Trends Since the Revised COPPA Rule”
3:30 pm
Panel 4: Uses and Misuses of Persistent Identifiers
Panelists:
James Cooper
Associate Professor of Law & Director, Program on Economics & Privacy, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Harry Jho
CEO & Co-Founder, Sockeye Media LLC; Co-Creator, Mother Goose Club
Katharina Kopp
Deputy Director & Director for Policy, Center for Digital Democracy
Jonathan Mayer
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Kate O’Loughlin
Chief Operating Officer of North America, SuperAwesome
Julia Tama
Partner, Venable LLPModerators:
Mark Eichorn, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection & Laura Hosken, Bureau of Economics, FTC4:45 pm
Closing Remarks
Maneesha Mithal
Associate Director, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTCFileAgenda (144.5 KB)
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Event Materials
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Transcript - Files
FileFull Transcript of COPPA Workshop, Part 1 (513.64 KB)FileFull Transcript of COPPA Workshop, Part 2 (518.41 KB)
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