FTC Seeks More Years of Kids' Data Paperwork Burden
Published Date: 3/21/2025
Notice
Summary
The Federal Trade Commission wants to keep collecting info under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) for three more years, helping protect kids online. This mainly affects businesses that handle kids' data and means they’ll keep spending time on paperwork—now estimated at 26,600 hours a year. Comments on this plan are due by April 21, 2025, so don’t miss your chance to speak up!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Three-Year COPPA Paperwork Extension
The FTC asked OMB to extend for an additional three years the paperwork clearance for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). The current clearance expires April 30, 2025; the FTC estimates the information-collection burden at 26,600 hours per year and estimated annual labor costs of $14,381,493 (estimated annual non-labor costs: $0). This primarily affects private-sector businesses and other for-profit entities that handle children's data.
COPPA Parental Consent Protections
If a website or online service collects personal information from children under age thirteen, the COPPA Rule requires operators to provide online notice and direct notice to parents, obtain prior parental consent before collecting/using/disclosing the child's personal information, give parents reasonable means to access and delete the information, and protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of that information (see 16 CFR part 312). The Rule applies to services directed to children and services with actual knowledge they are collecting information from children under age thirteen.
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