[Federal Register: May 22, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 99)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Children's Online Privacy Protection
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
ACTION: Notice of opportunity to participate and obtain co-sponsorship
in agency public awareness campaign.
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SUMMARY: The FTC seeks to identify organizations interested in
participating in the FTC's public awareness campaign concerning the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and the FTC Rule that
implements the Act. Participation by such organizations will involve
the development and dissemination of informational materials co-
sponsored by the FTC. Interested parties should submit a written
statement explaining their interest and qualifications.
DATES: The FTC has not established a deadline, but it encourages
interested organizations to submit the requested statement as early as
possible.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Randy Satterfield, (202) 326-3407,
Office of Consumer and Business Education, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580, or
rsatterfield@ftc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective April 21, 2000, the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR Part 312, issued by the FTC to
implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 15
U.S.C. 6501 et seq., prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in
connection with the collection, use, or disclosure of personally
identifiable information from and about children on the Internet. The
Commission voted to issue its final Rule on October 20, 1999, and the
Rule was published at 64 FR 59888 (November 3, 1999).
To promote greater public awareness of the Rule and the COPPA, the
FTC has initiated a Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Communications Campaign (``COPPA Communications Campaign''). The
Campaign is designed to provide parents, guardians, youngsters,
teachers, and other members of the public with information about
privacy on the Internet and the law's protections. The Campaign will
help parents understand the legal obligations of Web site operators
under the COPPA as well as options that parents have for protecting
their children's personal information. You can visit the Campaign's Web
site at the following Internet address: www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
The Commission believes that encouraging the active involvement of
a wide variety of corporations, associations, organizations, and other
entities in this effort will lead to a broad and effective educational
campaign. Thus, as part of its Campaign, the FTC is seeking to foster
the efforts of other public and private for-profit and non-profit
organizations in the development and dissemination of informational
materials about COPPA and the FTC's Rule, by allowing such
organizations to list the FTC as a co-sponsor in connection with their
materials, subject to FTC staff review and approval of such materials.
(Interested organizations should note at the outset that this co-
sponsorship program will not be funded or supported by agency grant,
contract, or otherwise, so each organization is expected to bear its
own costs of participation.)
The Commission requests that organizations interested in pursuing
such co-sponsorship opportunities submit a written statement to the FTC
contact listed above, describing the background and nature of the
organization's interest or role in children's privacy and/or the
Internet, and the organization's experience and expertise in developing
and disseminating public information materials addressing those issues.
The statement must also describe the organization's ability to reach
the target audiences discussed above, including the organization's
financial, managerial, and operational capacity and resources for the
printing, production, and distribution of brochures or booklets, public
service spots, videos, Web-based promotions, posters, flyers,
advertising, etc. The statement must also include any other information
that may be relevant, such as pertinent individual or organizational
affiliations and the potential, if any, for apparent or actual
conflicts of interest. In addition, the statement must expressly
acknowledge the organization's understanding and agreement that FTC co-
sponsorship, if any, of the organization's activities would not be
funded or supported by agency grant, contract, or otherwise, would not
create any financial or property right in any natural or artificial
person, and would be subject to FTC review and approval of the public
information materials or activities to be co-sponsored. Finally, an
authorized representative of the organization must sign the statement.
The FTC will consider the organization's statement and other
information made available to or obtained by the agency in determining
whether it should co-sponsor or continue to co-sponsor a particular
organization's public information efforts.
By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-12754 Filed 5-19-00; 8:45 am]
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