IQ News: FTC To Examine Kids'

Privacy Protection
The Federal Trade Commission will consider a plan to impose more stringent parental notification rules on commercial Web sites that collect personal information from kids and then sell that data to a third party. The issue was raised at an FTC workshop last week to discuss what methods should be used to contact parents under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which became law last year. The FTC will issue final rules in October.
“It is an interesting idea and I am sure we will evaluate it very carefully,” said Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.