Cybersecurity

FTC proposes tougher children’s data privacy rules for first time in a decade

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing new restrictions on the use and disclosure of children’s personal data and wants to make it much harder for companies to exclude children from their services if they can’t monetize their data, the agency announced Wednesday. The proposed overhaul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) is […]

Cybersecurity

FTC targets telecom provider for inmates after massive data breach

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it wants to require a prison communications provider to improve its security practices and incident reporting policies after the company failed to protect sensitive information about “hundreds of thousands” of users and did not notify all victims of the breach. The draft complaint and proposed order against Virginia-based […]