COPA and CIPPA
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COPPA and CIPA
Question 1
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers.
If you operate a commercial Web site or an online service directed to children under 13 that collects personal information from children or if you operate a general audience Web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
To determine whether a Web site is directed to children, the FTC considers several factors, including the subject matter; visual or audio content; the age of models on the site; language; whether advertising on the Web site is directed to children; information regarding the age of the actual or intended audience; and whether a site uses animated characters or other child-oriented features.
Question 2:
First, the law, as written, is overbroad, prohibiting otherwise legal, non-obscene images depicting teenagers engaging in sexual activity, such as filmed depictions of Romeo and Juliet or Lolita.
Second, the prohibition on child pornography is based on the link between the creation of the image and the sexual abuse of the children shown in the image. If an image is created by use of computer technology or by photographing adults pretending to be children, there is no basis in the law to ban the image.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), discussed in Section 3, requires parental consent before web sites can collect data from children. But the law only protects those under age 13. The lives of many teens are closely intertwined with the electronic culture offered by commercial web sites and by Internet services like social networking, Instant Messaging and music sharing.
Teens are both shaping and being shaped by their immersion in the digital culture. Marketing to teens is rampant on the
COPPA and CIPA
Question 1
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers.
If you operate a commercial Web site or an online service directed to children under 13 that collects personal information from children or if you operate a general audience Web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
To determine whether a Web site is directed to children, the FTC considers several factors, including the subject matter; visual or audio content; the age of models on the site; language; whether advertising on the Web site is directed to children; information regarding the age of the actual or intended audience; and whether a site uses animated characters or other child-oriented features.
Question 2:
First, the law, as written, is overbroad, prohibiting otherwise legal, non-obscene images depicting teenagers engaging in sexual activity, such as filmed depictions of Romeo and Juliet or Lolita.
Second, the prohibition on child pornography is based on the link between the creation of the image and the sexual abuse of the children shown in the image. If an image is created by use of computer technology or by photographing adults pretending to be children, there is no basis in the law to ban the image.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), discussed in Section 3, requires parental consent before web sites can collect data from children. But the law only protects those under age 13. The lives of many teens are closely intertwined with the electronic culture offered by commercial web sites and by Internet services like social networking, Instant Messaging and music sharing.
Teens are both shaping and being shaped by their immersion in the digital culture. Marketing to teens is rampant on the