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Article: Online but Off Track; Few Children's Web Sites Get Parental Consent to Collect Data
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- The Washington Post
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- July 22, 1999
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Despite a new federal law, prohibitive costs and inadequate
technology are encouraging many World Wide Web sites for children to
make only cursory attempts to obtain parental consent before
collecting personal data on children younger than 13 years, according
to industry officials and a new survey.
Industry officials who met with Federal Trade Commission officials
this week for a review of the requirements in the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act made it clear that they would be hard pressed
to ensure a 100 percent success rate on parental consent.
Some large companies said the cost related to obtaining parental
consent is more than $2 per child, with the mid-size companies
reporting ...