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.
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.
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