[IP] privacy policies

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Title: approve:tippie   privacy policies

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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> 

 

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Toby L. Sanders

Helping companies create new ways to learn and entertain

tobylynns@yahoo.com

212-956-0678 

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