COPPA
Regulation
United States
· 1998
COPPA governs the online collection of personal information from children under thirteen in the United States. It requires verifiable parental consent before collection, limits retention, requires disclosure of what is collected and why, and gives parents the right to review and delete. In education it operates alongside FERPA, and schools may consent on a parent's behalf in defined circumstances.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.