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| | OMB Watch - CIPA, COPA, COPPA, CPPA: Child Online Protections Explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Yet there was also a noticeably consistent lack of understanding about COPPA compliance, including a prominent link to the privacy policy, proper parental consent measures, and the use of data collection techniques that leave the door open for potentially false data to be entered by minors. |
 | | The COPPA charges led to a settlement, blasted by both public interest groups and the attorneys general, and Disney wound up spending US$50K during January 2000 to just simply delete the information. |
 | | COPPA went into effect April 21, 2000, but was actually signed into law by President Clinton in 1998-- a significant year that also saw the passage of COPA by Congress. |
| www.ombwatch.org /article/articleview/593/1/96 (3320 words) |
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