State AGs Recommend FTC Expand COPPA Definitions for Personal Data
The FTC should expand its definitions of personal information to include biometric data, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general wrote Monday. The agency is collecting comments on its review of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act rule, extended through…
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Wednesday (see 1912090061). The agency should “clamp down on companies that embed code in children’s mobile applications and collect data in order to serve children behavioral advertising” and “examine how the rules apply to school-issued laptops that are ‘free’ so long as companies get to collect information from the students using them,” the group said. Signing were law enforcement chiefs in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Washington state and the District of Columbia.