Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) needs to hear from parents: We want our children’s privacy protected. The FTC may bow under the pressure of Big Tech and weaken COPPA regulations. COPPA is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, originally passed in 1998. Its purpose is to ensure online privacy protections for children under the age of 13 and it should be strengthened, not weakened. Parents Across America submitted the following comments to the FTC and we urge you to submit your own.
The deadline to submit comments to the FTC is December 9th.
Please submit your comments to the FTC here.
You can get more information on COPPA and sign on to the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood’s Letter to the FTC here.
The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy provides more information on COPPA and sample comments for you to submit to the FTC here.
To the FTC:
Student data is being collected at extraordinarily high rates and Parents Across America is calling on the FTC to strengthen, not weaken, COPPA regulations, increase enforcement of existing COPPA Rules, and better protect student privacy.
Parents are increasingly concerned about the lack of informed consent they’re given when it comes to the apps their children are using in their school work. They need the FTC to advocate for the best interests of children, not the bottom lines of EdTech companies.
Current COPPA regulations don’t do nearly enough to protect the data of children under the age of 13. Parents want COPPA to better protect their children’s school-generated data by requiring all app, software, service, platform, and device providers to publicly and prominently share how they protect student data.
The amount of student data collected by vendors is staggering and it’s worrisome to parents. COPPA regulations should require EdTech companies to only collect the data that is needed to operate their products. CONTINUE READING: Parents Across America told the FTC: Don’t weaken student privacy. You can too | Parents Across America
Parent Coalition for Student Privacy - https://www.studentprivacymatters.org/