Today, the Federal Trade Commission voted to update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), bringing it up to speed with modern tracking technologies that didn’t exist when the law was passed in 1998. Abine was one of more than 50 organizations that signed on to a letter pushing for the changes, organized by the [...]
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Petition for children’s online privacy protections
The Center for Digital Democracy and Common Sense Media launched an important petition asking for privacy-protecting revisions to COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We signed, and we urge you to do the same. Why is COPPA important? Because advertisers are constantly targeting children with influential advertising online, and they’re collecting kids’ personal and [...]
Poll: 95% of consumers want to remove their personal information from data broker websites
We polled 1,000 anonymous web users on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about data brokers in September 13th, 2012. Ninety-five percent of people said they thought they should be able to remove their personal information from being publicly displayed on data broker sites, also called “people search sites” or info brokers. The one-question multiple-choice poll read, “Companies [...]
Why DeleteMe is a subscription service and not a 1-time thing
We get a lot of questions from customers about why DeleteMe is a subscription and not a 1-time sweep of deletions. The reason is quite simple: your personal information often repopulates once we remove it. A simple way of thinking about it is that your DeleteMe operator removes your record, but new information is generated [...]