May 12th, 2003
New Efforts Are Being Made to Keep Online Merchants from Collecting Personal Information from Children
By Laurie J. Flynn
The New York Times
After three years’ experience with a federal law meant to protect children’s privacy online, privacy-rights groups are trying to expand the number and kinds of commercial Web sites that must comply.
Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, one the dozen privacy groups signing the complaint, said he hoped the Amazon case would compel the F.T.C. to investigate other online shopping sites that may be similarly violating Coppa.