Information Technology Act
Information Technology Act
Vivian Pearson
BIS/220
June 10, 2013
Daina Scott
There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in my paper are the Children’s Online Privacy Act of 1998 and The Children Internet Protection Act.
Children's online Privacy Act COPPA, 1998
The Children's Online Privacy Act is a federal law constructed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by people that’s on the internet searching different websites. This law was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998. This law is enforced and design to regulate the collection and personal information of children. A survey was conducted by FTC on several different web sites in 1998. A high percentage of these websites collected personal information from children. A lot of these websites did not explain how or why the information they collected on children was used. This is how the law came about to address the potential problem that is directed toward children under the age of 13 collecting information on these kids. This law is to protect kids from coming into contact with pedophiles who might try to contact them through email and social websites.
Children Internet Protection Act 2000 The Children’s Internet Protection Act is a federal law that was passed to allocate the offensive content over the Internet. The Children Internet Protection Act was passed in December 2000. Children Internet Protection Act requires schools and all public libraries to require filters on their computers to stop under age kids from accessing sites that are not appropriate. The main focus of the Children Internet Protection Act is to protect children from pornography, internet obscenity and other dangers that lurk on the internet. This is the third law that Congress has passed in regards to children’s access to the inappropriate Internet
Vivian Pearson
BIS/220
June 10, 2013
Daina Scott
There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in my paper are the Children’s Online Privacy Act of 1998 and The Children Internet Protection Act.
Children's online Privacy Act COPPA, 1998
The Children's Online Privacy Act is a federal law constructed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by people that’s on the internet searching different websites. This law was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998. This law is enforced and design to regulate the collection and personal information of children. A survey was conducted by FTC on several different web sites in 1998. A high percentage of these websites collected personal information from children. A lot of these websites did not explain how or why the information they collected on children was used. This is how the law came about to address the potential problem that is directed toward children under the age of 13 collecting information on these kids. This law is to protect kids from coming into contact with pedophiles who might try to contact them through email and social websites.
Children Internet Protection Act 2000 The Children’s Internet Protection Act is a federal law that was passed to allocate the offensive content over the Internet. The Children Internet Protection Act was passed in December 2000. Children Internet Protection Act requires schools and all public libraries to require filters on their computers to stop under age kids from accessing sites that are not appropriate. The main focus of the Children Internet Protection Act is to protect children from pornography, internet obscenity and other dangers that lurk on the internet. This is the third law that Congress has passed in regards to children’s access to the inappropriate Internet