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 [...]
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 [...]
Sticking it to the people search companies
Tell us if this situation sounds fair to you: dozens of websites you’ve never heard of are publicly displaying and selling your personal information–your address, phone number, email address, family members, etc.–and profiting off it. The companies selling your personal info don’t ask you first if it’s okay, and you don’t make any money from [...]