The operator of www.skidekids.com, a website that advertises itself as the “Facebook and Myspace for Kids,” has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he collected personally information from approximately 5,600 children without obtaining prior parental consent, in violation of the Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule. The FTC’s complaint also charges…
Category: Youth & Schools
It’s for the children, EU Tuesday edition
John Leyden reports: Improved safeguards and greater resources for law enforcement are needed to tackle the related problems of cyber-bullying and online grooming, according to a report by an EU security agency published on Tuesday. ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) warned that the mishandling of personal information gathered using data-mining or profiling…
Privacy Victims by the Million: Federal Law Turns Parents and Children into Liars … and Criminals?
Over on Volokh.com, Stewart Baker uses Danah Boyd’s new study on under-age kids signing up for Facebook with their parents collaboration to lambast COPAA. He writes, in part: Teaching kids to lie isn’t exactly a government policy to be proud of. But federal law has another unintended legal consequence in store for those parents and…
ACLU’s ‘Kick A Jew Day’ lawsuit dismissed, but raises important questions about FERPA
Aisling Swift reports: A two-year battle for Collier County school records detailing a “Kick a Jew Day” incident at North Naples Middle School in 2009 came to an end this week, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. On Tuesday, Collier Circuit Judge Hugh Hayes dismissed a lawsuit filed in April by…