Protecting Children's Online Privacy: A Parent's Guide to the new stronger kids privacy rules for digital media(COPPA)

The new FTC rules designed to better protect children’s privacy kick-in on July 1, 2013. CDD and colleagues led a four-year campaign to help create these safeguards. The new rules better protect kids from stealth online tracking, the collection of their geo-location information by apps and mobile devices, data gathered by social media, etc. Here’s a guide for parents to help them understand how to make COPPA work for them.

Groups interested in learning how they can monitor online sites to ensure they are following the new safeguards, as well as file complaints with the FTC, can email us for a free COPPA compliance guide.