Article: First "safe harbor" approved for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

M2 PRESSWIRE-2 February 2001-US FTC: First "safe harbor" approved for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CARU), the children's arm of the advertising industry's self-regulatory program established in 1974, has been approved as the first "safe harbor" program under the terms of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Safe harbor programs are industry self-regulatory guidelines that, if adhered to, are deemed to comply with the Act.

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