Sep 18 2009
Controversial Maine Privacy Law Sidelined Pending Further Review
In a move applauded by a wide coalition of companies doing business online, Maine’s attorney general recently decided that she will not enforce a law banning the use of personal information about minors for marketing purposes that went into effect on September 12.
The ”Act To Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices against Minors“, prohibits companies from collecting personal information–such as name and e-mail address–from minors without receiving verifiable parental consent. The restrictions are considerably broader than the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), applying to information related to everyone under 18 (COPPA is limited to children under 13) and extending to such information collected offline as well as on. Continue Reading »
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