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Children’s privacy protections are under the spotlight globally and rightly so. Every day there are news headlines featuring how big tech is violating privacy regulations and new research being published supporting claims on how children have been subjected to online harm driving a tidal wave of child privacy and safety bills. There are millions of apps, games and websites in the market, many of which appeal to children and many of which are operating in “a wild west” with little regard for privacy regulations or protections. However, there are companies out there that are doing it right, being transparent and building trust with their users. Companies that proactively join PRIVO’s Kids Privacy Assured program open the doors for review, evaluation, critique and resolution. They have committed to doing the work required. In many cases, they are investing in this work while knowing their competitors maybe flouting the regulations to increase the bottom line. Every member in our Kids Privacy Assured Program is investing precious resources in the form of legal, executive, product, program and engineering time and expertise to understand compliance, privacy and safety and put measures in place to help protect children. Our members have gone to great lengths to ensure that they are handling child privacy compliantly and are meeting the highest standards to deliver an age-appropriate privacy safe environment for kids. Our members collectively reach and protect the privacy of billions of minors spanning more than 230 countries. As we approach Thanksgiving in the US, we are dedicating the month of November as our member appreciation month, celebrating companies getting it right. PRIVO supports some of the world’s top apps & games for kids, toy companies, publishers, gaming studios, digital learning platforms and third party providers that fuel the digital economy with analytics, mobile attribution, insights, payment solutions and adtech. Click below to continue reading the complete blog and stay tuned as we highlight our different members throughout the month. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gYw_ETU8 #childrensprivacy #COPPA #GDPR #GDPRk #GDPRkids #kidscode #childrenscode #kidsprivacyassured #onlinesafety #ageassurance #ageverification #parentalconsent #VPC #PiD #YesYouCan with PRIVO! Claire Quinn Denise G. Tayloe Xsolla SoapBox Labs BiblioNasium KIDOZ Inc. AppsFlyer Singular GuardRailz The Lumistella Company Voces Digital Spin Master Moose Toys Toca Boca MARIO Education Red Games Co. Bobs Books OUTFIT7 Knit Woozworld Inc. PlaytestCloud TutoTOONS PlayDate Digital Inc. CHUCKE CHEESEQA Kooth Digital Health (North America) Embodied, Inc. Panda Restaurant Group Pixowl Star Stable Entertainment AB Ravi Bijlani Jodell Seagrave Shauna Leff

🇺🇸💡The Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (#KOSPA), passed by the U.S. Senate on July 25, 2024, is a significant step forward in federal privacy legislation. It combines elements from two prior bills, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (#COPPA 2.0), to enhance online protections for children and teens. 🔹KOSPA defines a child as anyone under 13 and a minor as anyone under 17. It requires online platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent and reduce harm to minors, such as mental health issues, addiction-like behaviours, violence, and exploitation. Platforms must offer minors easy-to-use safeguards, like limiting who can contact them, controlling the amount of time they spend online, and opting out of personalised recommendations. These protections should be enabled by default, with tools for parents to manage their children’s online experience. 🔹The act also includes the Filter Bubble Transparency Act, which mandates that platforms using algorithms to tailor content based on user data must clearly explain how these algorithms work and allow users to turn them off. 🔹KOSPA introduces a new standard for protecting minors, requiring companies to act when they have "actual knowledge or knowledge fairly implied" that a user is a minor. This broadens companies' responsibility to protect children online. The law narrowly preempts state laws, only overriding those that directly conflict with KOSPA while allowing states to enact stricter protections. 🔹One of the key provisions is the duty of care, which obligates platforms to design their features with the safety of minors in mind, addressing issues like anxiety, bullying, and online abuse. KOSPA also strengthens requirements for obtaining verifiable parental consent (VPC), ensuring it’s collected before a child first uses a service. This goes beyond the existing requirements under COPPA, ensuring that parental consent is secured at the earliest stage of a child’s interaction with an online service. KOSPA also addresses the situation of children who have already been using a service, requiring platforms to seek consent if they later discover the user is a child 🔹Furthermore, KOSPA bans targeted advertising to anyone under 17, setting a new federal standard beyond existing state laws. It also requires platforms to have a reporting system for minors, parents, or schools to report harmful content, with platforms needed to respond quickly depending on the severity of the issue. 🔹While KOSPA passed the Senate with strong support, its future in the House of Representatives remains uncertain. The earliest it could be considered is September 9, 2024. Meanwhile, states will likely continue developing laws to protect children and teens online. #children #privacy #profiling #law #gdpr #dataprotection

What an amazing session during the 2024 PRIVO (Privacy Vaults Online) Children's Digital Privacy Summit. If you couldn't make it this year, follow Privo's page for updates and more video content from our summit!

Regulations and rhetoric aside, we can all do So. Much. Better. in protecting kids' privacy and safety online. They're counting on us and we're letting them down, over and over and in ways that enable real damage. And, done well, getting it right for kids is good for business. Please take a moment to learn more about kids' and teens' perspectives on safety and privacy, hot off the press from Smarty Pants. With thanks to Wynne Tyree and Michael Desmarais.

k-ID launches a solution that helps game developers comply with ever-changing child safety regulations Making a video crippled palmy is already hard. Doing truthful portion complying with the increasing fig of kid information laws and regulations astir the satellite is an astir insurmountable task. A caller exertion institution called k-ID aims to marque this process overmuch easier for crippled makers, by offering a model that protects publishers and developers against the pitfalls that travel with non-compliance, including regulatory sanctions, reputational risk, and different consequences. Co-founded by CEO Kieran Donovan, an lawyer by trade, whose enactment progressive advising tech and gaming companies connected planetary compliance, k-ID is an effort to crook his knowing of the instrumentality and regulations arsenic it related to scaling a crippled — oregon adjacent a societal level — into a product. His acquisition successful guiding companies done the regulatory model and different taste sensitivities they whitethorn not beryllium alert of forms the ground for k-ID’s caller solution. “You get asked the aforesaid question clip implicit and clip over…and the airy bulb goes connected and you think, ‘Wait a minute, there’s an accidental for idiosyncratic to really physique thing for everyone to lick immoderate of these challenges successful the kids, teens and parents space,” Donovan tells TechCrunch. K-ID’s solution was built implicit the past 18 months, with assistance from co-founders whose backgrounds besides see privateness law, online spot and safety, arsenic good arsenic tech and gaming experience. In summation to Donovan, k-ID’s enforcement squad includes Chief Safety Officer Jeff Wu, a spot and information seasoned who antecedently worked astatine Google and Meta; Chief Growth Officer Julian Corbett, who held enforcement positions astatine In-Fusio, Take-Two Interactive, Voodoo, and Tencent; Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Luc Delany, antecedently CEO of the International Social Games Association (ISGA) and Chair of the Mobile Games Intelligence Forum (MGIF); CTO Aakash Mandhar, antecedently of Microsoft, EA, Immutuable, and others; and soon-to-be Chief Legal Officer, Timothy Ma, antecedently caput of planetary privateness and Data Protection Officer astatine Tencent. Image Credits: k-ID Part of the situation facing crippled developers is that they don’t needfully adjacent cognize if kids are utilizing their level due to the fact that property verification often includes lone a elemental pop-up wherever users bespeak that they’re implicit the property of 13 by typing successful a commencement date. Historically, crippled developers whitethorn person had to verify the child’s property oregon petition ID to beryllium the subordinate is not a kid. If the...

The two bills in the package—the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, and the Children’s and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA 2.0—represent the most significant congressional action in decades to regulate social media’s impact on children and teens. KOSA would require social media companies to provide better protections for users under the age of 17. It would also require companies to give guardians more control over minors’ use of a platform and prevent certain features, such as autoplay. And it would require companies to give users a dedicated page to report harmful content. COPPA 2.0 would create stronger online privacy protections for anyone under the age of 17. It would also bar targeted advertising to kids and teens and create an eraser button for parents and kids by requiring companies to allow users to delete information. #KOSA #COPPA #kidtech #edtech #privacy #childsafety #minorsafety #trustandsafety

Big changes on Instagram for users under 18! 🚨 From default private accounts to healthier screen time features, Instagram is stepping up to protect teens' privacy. If you’re managing online safety, it’s important to stay up-to-date with these changes. Read more about these changes here: #PrivacyUpdate #SocialMediaSafety #DataProtection

Today we celebrate #DataProtectionDay And thinking about privacy and protecting users data we can't forget that one third of global active internet users are under the age of 18. Designing a #fairbydesign experience means taking into account their needs, habits and vulnerabilities, making sure that we let them begin their digital journey empowered and sure of their actions, but also provide them with #darkpatterns free interfaces tailored to protect them. At Fairpatterns and Amurabi we have designed several interfaces specifically for teens and kids users in different industries, and we collaborated with the CNIL - Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés in a 9-month long project to create model interfaces to empower kids and teens to better understand and exercise their rights. Working with age groups 8-10 , 11-14 and 15-17 and co-creating with them to avoid having adults assuming what they need and think, doing user testing in our lab and thanks to 1 to 1 video interviews and testing on-site in a classroom, we discover some great insights on their way to understand and manage privacy: 🧒 although they'd express it in their own words, even very young kids really understand what privacy is 🏢 they often fail to understand is that there is a "company behind" the game, the network or interface/product they're using 🗂 the doses of information they're able to absorb is limited, but if you engage them with words and images that really resonate with what they love, then they really get interested 🚫 do not call them "children" or patronise them using childish images, they will immediately reject any message you're trying to get across! If you're curious to know more, all the informations on the project can be found at these links: https://lnkd.in/eKjvJPMk https://lnkd.in/eW5ufGaN #fairpatterns #deceptivedesign #impactdriven #solutionmakers #onlinedeception #onlinemanipulation #darkpatterns #digitalfairness #fairnessbydesign #privacyweek #privacyday

Instagram has rolled out major privacy updates designed to protect teens online. With increasing concerns over minors’ safety, these changes couldn’t be more timely. Here's what you need to know: - Default private accounts - Restricted notifications - Parental supervision These measures aim to tackle concerns about cyberbullying, harmful content, and excessive screen time. With laws like the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct gaining traction, it’s clear that social media platforms need to step up. 💬 How do you feel about these changes? Will they help make social media safer for teens?