COPPA
1. Short for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA became effective April 21, 2000 and is an United States act that applies to commercial websites or an online service that collects information that could be used by children under the age of 13. COPPA helps protect an under age child's privacy by either restricting the child without parents permission or not allowing that child to access the page because it collects data.
Additional information about COPPA and how to comply with this act can be found on the below page.
- Protecting children from harmful material and people on the Internet.
- The official COPPA page is found at http://www.coppa.org/
2. Short for California Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA is a law that went into effect July 1, 2004 that requires commercial websites that collect personally identifiable information from California residents to have a linked privacy policy that contains details with how the information that is gathered is used.
Also see: CDA, FTC, ICRA, Internet definitions, Security definitions