What is COPPA?

           COPPA simply means Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. It is the law passed by congress to protect children’s privacy that is under 13 years of age. The Act was effective on April 2000, and it states the law and policy website operator must have in their privacy policy and must seek parent or guardian's consent before collecting or use any personal information of any child below age of 13 years. 

        

            The Act also states that; Site require parental consent for using any personal information of children web site user and how they will seek verifiable from their parent, what must be included in the policy. The responsibility the operator of a web site must legally hold to protect children’s privacy and their safety online.

             Social  network online has been making money online selling  their users information to their marketer, This law has help preventing them from selling children’s information that are under 13 years to their marketing partners.
                                            

           Federal Trade Commission with the authority to issue and enforce COPPA fines some companies in 2006 for violating the policy and regulation of COPPA. Xanga was fined one million us dollar for allowing children under 13 to make use of their website without parent consent, UMG recordings was fine four hundred thousand us dollar for promoting 13 year old pop singer, and many more.

         

            I think this is the law every parent (even the children) should keep in mind and respect at all-time. With the increase rate of how people fall victim of using social media this day, the age limit should increase to something like 16 years and there should be more awareness program on Tv, internet, and newspaper about the policy.

http://iparent.tv/what-is-coppa/

http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm

http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/COPPA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act

          Assignment 6 TED Talk
                 
                      The leaders who ruined Africa and the generation who can fix it

         

          I watched the video of Fred Swaniker (who is from Africa) talking about the leaders who ruined  Africa countries and he thinks some generation to come can fix it. He made mention of how he moved from one Africa country (Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe ) to the others at the age of 4 to 8 year to escape from coup de eta turbulence. I picked this video because I love Africa and I wish the corruption of our leaders can come to an end one day.

          He also made mention of three generations in his talk: generation one, are the leaders that struggled and brought independence and free Africans colonialism, which is in late 50.s and 60’s. The Second generations are the ones that brought havoc to Africa; like warfare, corruption, human right abuses, stealing of highest order, and anything that can ruin and destroy a country. The third one are the leaders like Nelson Mandela and Paul Kagame, who cleaned up the havoc made by the second generations. These generations are also known as stabilizer generation, they improve macroeconomic policies and it is in their generation that Africa became the second fastest growing economic region in the world. The fourth generations are the ones to come. These are the generations that will transform the continent, create prosperity (to tackle issue of poverty) and creates Institution.

         This is an interesting Talk. I was engaged throughout the entire presentation.  Many of his suggestion to fix Africa are reasonable. Whatever they are teaching in the university as he mentioned may only create Job and expand Africa, but I don’t think it can eradicate corruption but could submerge it. Corruption is the giant destroyer of Africa. If African leader can be dead to corruption and greediness, I believe African country would have gone beyond where they are today.Even the youth are participating seriously in corruption and these are the leaders of tomorrow. Also I wish he uses Africa as whole instead of concentrating on some part of Africa countries. 

              There are several humor used in his presentation. Like calling the man that uses bat poop to start his fertilizer business "The Batman". The pictures of the past leaders he showed in his presentation help the viewers to understand more of what he was talking about. And it was very effective. There was no question asked throughout the presentation.

                

       http://www.ted.com/talks/fred_swaniker_the_leaders_who_ruined_africa_and_the_generation_who_can_fix_it