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FTC Posts Blog on Data Deletion Rule under COPPA

Posted on June 5, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

From Hunton Andrews Kurth:

On May 31, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission published on its Business Blog a post addressing the easily missed data deletion requirement under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).

The post cautions that companies must review their data policy in order to comply with the data retention and deletion rule. Under Section 312.10 of COPPA, an online service operator may retain personal information of a child “for only as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected.” After that, the operator must delete it with reasonable measures to ensure secure deletion.

Read more on Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.

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