As laid out in our earlier blogpost, part of Ropes & Gray’s Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Group’s “12 Days of Data” series, one thing to look out for in 2024 is an update from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) review. Well, we did not have to wait until 2024. On December 20, 2023, the FTC announced proposed changes to the COPPA Rule.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is the culmination of a process that began on July 25, 2019, when the FTC first solicited comments on the COPPA rule promulgated in 2013. The NPRM is seeking comments on the proposed changes as well as some related questions within 60 days of publication in the Federal Register (the deadline will likely fall in late February).
