In an expansion of pending rules proposed in September 2011, the Federal Trade Commission yesterday proposed rules to further protect kids' on-line privacy under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. As Cecilia Kang explains in this article, the FTC has proposed "online privacy rules that would make it harder for advertisers and social networks to collect information about children without permission from parents. The FTC said its proposed rules would require ad networks, social networks and other third-party partners of Web sites to ask parents for permission to collect information about users 12 years old or younger."
Read the FTC's original proposed rule from last September, the proposal issued yesterday, and the FTC's webpage explaining the new proposal and linking to a varierty of relevant information.
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