Changes in law aim to protect children’s online data

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz confer Dec. 19 at the start of a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA, which regulates Internet websites that collect informati...

WASHINGTON—Aiming to prevent companies from exploiting online information about children under 13, the Obama administration on Wednesday imposed sweeping changes in regulations designed to protect a young generation with easy access to the Internet.

Two years in the making, the ...

Published: 12/26/2012