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[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 99 (Monday, May 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 32100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12754]

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Children's Online Privacy Protection

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to participate and obtain co-sponsorship 
in agency public awareness campaign.

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SUMMARY: The FTC seeks to identify organizations interested in 
participating in the FTC's public awareness campaign concerning the 
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and the FTC Rule that 
implements the Act. Participation by such organizations will involve 
the development and dissemination of informational materials co-
sponsored by the FTC. Interested parties should submit a written 
statement explaining their interest and qualifications.

DATES: The FTC has not established a deadline, but it encourages 
interested organizations to submit the requested statement as early as 
possible.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Randy Satterfield, (202) 326-3407, 
Office of Consumer and Business Education, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580, or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective April 21, 2000, the Children's 
Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR Part 312, issued by the FTC to 
implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 15 
U.S.C. 6501 et seq., prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in 
connection with the collection, use, or disclosure of personally 
identifiable information from and about children on the Internet. The 
Commission voted to issue its final Rule on October 20, 1999, and the 
Rule was published at 64 FR 59888 (November 3, 1999).
    To promote greater public awareness of the Rule and the COPPA, the 
FTC has initiated a Children's Online Privacy Protection Act 
Communications Campaign (``COPPA Communications Campaign''). The 
Campaign is designed to provide parents, guardians, youngsters, 
teachers, and other members of the public with information about 
privacy on the Internet and the law's protections. The Campaign will 
help parents understand the legal obligations of Web site operators 
under the COPPA as well as options that parents have for protecting 
their children's personal information. You can visit the Campaign's Web 
site at the following Internet address: www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
    The Commission believes that encouraging the active involvement of 
a wide variety of corporations, associations, organizations, and other 
entities in this effort will lead to a broad and effective educational 
campaign. Thus, as part of its Campaign, the FTC is seeking to foster 
the efforts of other public and private for-profit and non-profit 
organizations in the development and dissemination of informational 
materials about COPPA and the FTC's Rule, by allowing such 
organizations to list the FTC as a co-sponsor in connection with their 
materials, subject to FTC staff review and approval of such materials. 
(Interested organizations should note at the outset that this co-
sponsorship program will not be funded or supported by agency grant, 
contract, or otherwise, so each organization is expected to bear its 
own costs of participation.)
    The Commission requests that organizations interested in pursuing 
such co-sponsorship opportunities submit a written statement to the FTC 
contact listed above, describing the background and nature of the 
organization's interest or role in children's privacy and/or the 
Internet, and the organization's experience and expertise in developing 
and disseminating public information materials addressing those issues. 
The statement must also describe the organization's ability to reach 
the target audiences discussed above, including the organization's 
financial, managerial, and operational capacity and resources for the 
printing, production, and distribution of brochures or booklets, public 
service spots, videos, Web-based promotions, posters, flyers, 
advertising, etc. The statement must also include any other information 
that may be relevant, such as pertinent individual or organizational 
affiliations and the potential, if any, for apparent or actual 
conflicts of interest. In addition, the statement must expressly 
acknowledge the organization's understanding and agreement that FTC co-
sponsorship, if any, of the organization's activities would not be 
funded or supported by agency grant, contract, or otherwise, would not 
create any financial or property right in any natural or artificial 
person, and would be subject to FTC review and approval of the public 
information materials or activities to be co-sponsored. Finally, an 
authorized representative of the organization must sign the statement. 
The FTC will consider the organization's statement and other 
information made available to or obtained by the agency in determining 
whether it should co-sponsor or continue to co-sponsor a particular 
organization's public information efforts.

    By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-12754 Filed 5-19-00; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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