privacy policies

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Toby <tobylynns () yahoo com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:52:07 -0800 (PST)
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: privacy policies

 
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Dave,

Grown-up websites could learn a lot from kid sites when it comes to Privacy
Policies. For several years the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA) has required that kid sites explain clearly (more English than
legalese) what data they are collecting, how they are using it and offer
parents a way to remove their child's data from a site.

 

Here are some samples from Disney, Mattel and Viacom:

http://disney.go.com/legal/privacy_policy.html
<http://disney.go.com/legal/privacy_policy.html>

http://www.barbie.com/Parents/Policy.asp
<http://www.barbie.com/Parents/Policy.asp>

http://www.nick.com/blab/site_wide/privacy/index.jhtml
<http://www.nick.com/blab/site_wide/privacy/index.jhtml>

 

The FTC is in charge of enforcing COPPA and has actually set up some useful
resources including a privacy policy generator:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html
<http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm
<http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm>

http://cs3-hq.oecd.org/scripts/pwv3/pwhome.htmI
<http://cs3-hq.oecd.org/scripts/pwv3/pwhome.htmI>

 

_______________

Toby L. Sanders

Helping companies create new ways to learn and entertain

tobylynns () yahoo com

212-956-0678 

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