In an acknowledgement of the tracking capabilities of online advertisers and social networks, the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed updating its rules on the conditions under which companies can collect online data about Web users under the age of 13.The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, also known as the COPPA rule, is a set of federal requirements that the FTC issued in 1999 and which went into affect in 2000, based on a law passed in 1998 known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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