The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

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The government has passed some laws which are intended to protect children on the internet. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) are to give protection for children who are accessing the internet. There are requirements and protective information for both COPPA and CIPA. Both acts are similar and different in ways to protect children but needed to be done with two acts. There are challenging elements with the COPPA and CIPA to implement in order to be compliant with the acts. There are reasons for the acts to define protection for different age groups such as COPPA defines a child under 13 and CIPA is under 17. When COPPA and CIPA was made into law, there were people who were for the acts but there were also people who opposed the acts.
COPPA purpose is to protect the privacy of children on the internet. The websites on the internet can only collect certain information from children and need to have parents’ consent. The main requirement for COPPA is to get consent from the parents to collect information and the second is the creation and posting of the privacy policy. A website has to have consent from the parents to be able to use any information collected from a child. According to Grama (2011), web site operators who get information from children must get consent from the parents before collecting, using or disclosing information, (p.124). Getting the consent can be challenging in that the web site operator needs to make sure it is the parent, not someone claiming to be the parent of the child. The web site would have to use technology which can help prove it is the child parent and not the child or someone else claiming to be the parent. The web site also has to c...

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...o protect children from offensive material and threats from online, congressmen making the laws will have to be careful not to violate the rights of the people.

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