Thread:Reverb frost/@comment-43649209-20191209143748/@comment-43649209-20191210124215

lol. At least prove that it's right. Not just keep on saying "well just coz you say so".

Just be honest, you have no reason(s), neither do COPPA and we all creators are proving it and destroying it...at least. Yeah, i see you ignoring my points. You obviously don't understand.

COPPA is controversial and has been criticized as ineffective and potentially unconstitutional by legal experts and mass media since it was drafted. People need to avoid it.

''On July 1 the amended version of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act goes into effect. This update of the law that’s been on the books since 1998 affects any commercial operator of any website, mobile app, or location-based service with “actual knowledge” that they have users under 13, plus any plug-in that deals with such sites. It’s going to be bad for business and bad for kids.''

''The burden on companies not to collect, store, or share any personally identifiable information on children under 13 is greater than ever before, and penalties approach $16,000 per child user. You don’t have to be building an app specifically for kids in order to get slammed. In February, the social network Path after identifying a total of 3,000 child users. Ninety domestic and foreign companies received warning lettersfrom the FTC in May that they may be out of compliance with the new rules.''

''The definition of “personally identifiable information” is broad. It’s not only names, home and email addresses, but has been updated to include geolocation data, photo, video, or audio of a child, and even IP addresses, which pretty much every website collects by definition.''

''The legal requirements for obtaining parental consent are highly involved and impractical, such as a video conference or having parents sign a form, scan and email in. Keeping kids off your site is not really practical either considering how high web and mobile useis among grade schoolers these days.''

There are three likely consequences to the tightening of COPPA’s screws, none of which were intended.

The privacy protection racket will grow.
There are five different official safe harbor programs that sites can affiliate with to self-police, and a growing cottage industry of privacy lawyers offering advice on compliance.

Sites will simply look the other way.
''“Actual knowledge” means you collect your users’ date of birth. Sites that don’t ask, or that promptly bounce everyone who states they’re under 13 may be safe. Of course, this nudge-and-wink policy gets us to a realitywhere 45 percent of 12 year olds are in fact using sites like Facebook, even if they have to lie to do it. Their data is being recorded and sold, with no enhanced protection of anyone’s privacy.''

Kids will get fewer and lamer apps.
''How would you like to try a version of Snapchat without photosharing? Yeah, we didn’t think so. The COPPA restrictions are bound to have a chilling effect on the development of educational apps and games.''

''The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) promulgated new rules (effectively July 1, 2013) interpreting the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the new rules are a real mess. They are riddled with innumerable ambiguities and questionable policy choices, and I could spend a decade or two trying to figure out how the new rules apply to different factual situations.''

''Rather than do that, this post considers only one aspect of the new rules, but it's crucial: is your website or app governed by the new rules? If the rules don't apply to you, who cares how byzantine and stupid they are?''

''Fortunately, most websites and apps won't be newly affected directly by the rule change. If you don't have a kid-oriented website or app, you can probably avoid the new rule easily (if you're potentially covered at all). However, the news is less happy for vendors to kid-oriented websites or apps, including ad networks and app plug-ins, and for kid-oriented websites that haven't already complied with COPPA.''

Background

''Congress enacted COPPA in 1998 as part of its never-ending efforts to "protect kids online." The statute provides extra online privacy protections for kids 12 and under unless parents consent. The law, however, has some obvious structural deficiencies, such as:''

''* the law doesn't apply to teens, even though minors can't enter into binding contracts--including privacy policies. So the statute leaves an odd gap for 13-17 year old users who aren't covered by COPPA but presumably can't agree to privacy policies themselves.''

* most websites don't authenticate users' ages and can't do so easily or cost-effectively, so many websites have no idea when they are dealing with kids.

* websites don't have a reliable way to obtain parents' consent online, forcing COPPA-compliant websites to adopt costly off-line verification methods.

Combine these problems with the fact that kids under 13 usually don't have a lot of direct purchasing power, and the choice was clear for most websites: maximize profits by avoiding being covered by COPPA.

Technically te revised COPPA rules probably won't affect me. But it still failed. Let me show you, child. Let's say you start a YouTube channel...maybe make family vlogs, or animations- GUESS WHAT?! I'll SUE YOU UP TO $42,530! HOW DARE YOU! THAT'S AGAINST COPPA; NOT PROTECTING KIDS. Either not make kid content or not make not kid content. See what i mean. And if that was annoying, lol, not our attutidue (the youtube community) but coppa and the ftc. You probably won't understand just listen to everything you hear and are controlled by the government (cuz that's what the ftc wants).