FTC Strengthens Privacy Protections for Kids Using Mobile Apps

The Federal Trade Commission announced today it would modify existing rules governing how digital media companies collect information about child users.

The changes were intended to ensure that regulations designed for the desktop Web of the 1990s, when the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act was passed, keep up with changing technology and to eliminate loopholes in current laws.

The new regulations add geolocation information, photographs, and videos to the list of “personal information” that cannot be collected about young users without parental consent.