Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson urged businesses to use technology to comply with children’s privacy law rather than find “innovative ways of breaking the law” at a Wednesday workshop on age verification technologies.
“Higher costs are no excuse for breaking the law or for relaxing standards for complying with the law, and the FTC order permits neither,” said Ferguson, referring to a September fine against Disney. “It instead encourages technological innovation in COPPA compliance, which in turn, expands the protection of children by reducing the cost of complying with COPPA, or voluntarily implementing other measures to protect children.”
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