Submission Number: 00152
Received: 12/14/2011 5:46:39 PM
Commenter: Allen Kanner
Organization:
State: California
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Initiative: 16 CFR Part 312; Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule Review; Project No. P104503
Attachments: No Attachments
Submission Text
Advertisers use children's personal information to manipulate them with increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques. Often these manipulations are harmful and are used to sell harmful products such as junk food, violent media, etc.
The COPPA Rule should clarify that operators must ask parents’ permission before they collect:
Children’s IP addresses
Children’s geolocation information
Children’s screen and user names
Photographs and videos of children