“The new Rule offers critical new protections for children and should serve as a wake-up call to an industry that far too often collects and uses kids’ data in deceptive and exploitative ways,” Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin said. “We’re pleased to see the Commission adopt several of the strong protections we recommended in our joint comments to the FTC with other child advocacy groups last year, including requiring separate parental consent for sharing data with advertisers and other third parties; limiting data retention; and expanding the definition of personal information to include biometrics.”
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