6th Edition: Trends in Marketing Communications Law Last year marked 20 years since Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Fittingly, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) kicked off 2018 by settling two back-to-back cases with companies alleged to have violated COPPA. Continue Reading
New York Attorney General Reaches Record COPPA Settlement with AOL
The Bottom Line The AOL settlement – which requires AOL to pay the largest COPPA penalty ever to date — is the most recent instance in which the New York Attorney General’s Office has sought to enforce COPPA. While most ad tech industry members have long known that behavioral advertising cannot be Continue Reading