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Question: Federal law for private information on the Web?
Subject:Question: Federal law for private information on the Web? From:"Donna Melton" <donna -at- emelton -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:49:19 -0800
See Children's Online Privacy Protection Act: www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm.
It defines children as under the age of 13.
> Paula Puffer wonders: <<I was doing some research on patient support web
> sites and came across this statement: "Please select the month and year of
> your birth. Federal law requires that Web sites ask for your date of birth
> before collecting any personal information."
> Now this is the first time I have heard of this law... anyone here know
> anything about it?>>
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