Cyd Harrell reports: SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I got a text from a parent friend. “It’s so sweet,” she wrote, “your daughter is sad about her project and mine is being so great comforting her.” Both 11-year-olds were in their respective after-school programs at different schools at the time, so I was puzzled. When I asked how…
Category: Youth & Schools
Children’s Privacy is Front and Center in DPC Ireland Report
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: With enforcement on children’s data privacy ramping up around the world, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has issued a detailed report on the fundamental principles of such data privacy, as well as some helpful suggestions to controllers on how to improve. The key principles: FLOOR OF PROTECTION: Online service providers should…
Inside Privacy Audiocast: Episode 17 – Children’s Privacy Developments
Dan Cooper, Sam Jungyun Choi, Danielle Kehl, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington and Burling write: On Episode 17 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Audiocast, Dan Cooper, Sam Choi, Danielle Kehl and Nick Shepherd discuss the developments related to children’s privacy, looking at relevant legislation, standards, and guidelines in the UK, the EU, and the U.S., and zooming in on some child-specific topics such as…
Ie: Irish Regulator Submits Draft Decision on Instagram’s Use of Children’s Data
Robert Bateman reports: The Irish data regulator has submitted a draft decision about Instagram’s user registration process to other EU data protection authorities, bringing the total number of ongoing Irish investigations into Meta (formerly Facebook) companies to three. In a 7 Dec. news release on its website, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said it was submitting the…