Now that the Federal Trade Commission has finally released its list of changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, what do experts in the field of child internet safety make of them? I was fortunate to be part of a Google hangout discussing the FTC updates to COPPA with the following child [...]
I attended the recent Children’s Advertising & Online Privacy Conference hosted by the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council (ASRC), formerly known as the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU). This year, the conference’s most hotly debated topic was COPPA and the changes coming soon to a family-friendly product near you, which we blogged on last month. I’ll summarize [...]
Last month we reported that a study commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) revealed that more than half of the UK people interviewed wouldn’t know how to report online child sexual abuse if they stumbled across it by accident. This month however, the news is slightly more encouraging. Thanks to the reports which are [...]
A study commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reveals that online child sexual abuse content is the main concern for UK web users, but more than half wouldn’t know how to report it if they stumbled across it by accident. IWF CEO Susie Hargreaves explains: “There is clear public concern over the availability of [...]
Although changes were very necessary, the recent FTC amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) have sparked some confusion, and raised concerns that they will diminish innovative and educational content production. To quickly review: COPPA restricts the online collection of personal information from children under 13 years of age in advance of parent consent. It [...]
Held recently in New York, the seventh Digital Kids conference is the largest gathering of professionals engaged in building online and mobile products and services for kids. Once again co-located with Toy Fair, Digital Kids is an annual pilgrimage for brands, licensers and marketers seeking to engage children online and on digital devices. [...]
Maybe this is the ultimate Valentine’s online card delivery? You get a message, you click on it – but now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t. A few seconds after viewing, pouf! it’s gone. Ah, the ephemeral nature of love … There may still be a few souls out here who haven’t heard of SnapChat, or its Facebook imitator, Poke. If [...]
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Today is the opening day of the 7th annual Digital Kids Conference in New York City. Brand owners, entertainment and media executives, marketers, producers, digital media directors and licensing professionals will be flocking to the event, and we’ll be live tweeting the latest in children’s digital engagement too. eModeration works with a number of high [...]
Safer Internet Day (SID) is celebrated in nearly 100 countries around the world in February of each year. In Europe, an amazing total of 30 countries mark the day with support from the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. Safer Internet Day 2013 – the tenth edition of the event – will take place tomorrow on [...]
I’ve got to confess two things: 1. I spend a lot of time on Twitter (to be fair, I’m paid to), and 2. I do like a nice, new, easy-to-use toy. So I’m pretty happy about Vine, the new (free) video-sharing app for iPhone / iPod touch which enables users to share clips up to [...]