The FTC can – and must – find out.
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The biggest lesson of this settlement and its aftermath? The way we make and think about media for children needs to change.
What we learned from our conversation with psychologist Dr. Sharon Maxwell and her daughter, learning designer and educator, Chelsea Maxwell.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) empowers parents to protect their children’s privacy, restricts what data can be collected from kids, and limits how that data can be used.
For more than 20 years, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) has been the only federal law stopping tech companies from exploiting kids’ data for profit.
Last year, CCFC, Center for Digital Democracy, and our lawyers at Georgetown Law's IPR filed an FTC complaint detailing how Google illegally collects, uses, and profits off of kids’ personal information on YouTube.
We agree with dissenting Commissioners Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter that the FTC's settlement with Facebook is not strong enough.
Private donors funding "innovative," impersonal, screen-based education for underfunded schools does not serve kids.
A new CCFC investigation has revealed deeply troubling findings about Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids, including that Amazon keeps children’s data even after parents try to delete it.
It's the first legislation that recognizes the internet's prevailing business model is inherently bad for children.