Parents must be involved when personal information is collected from their children. The study's release coincides with Federal Trade Commission workshop where companies and privacy advocates are discussing ways to carry out the Federal Children's Onlne Privacy Protection Act that was passed by congress last year. The Act, which isn't scheduled to take effect until next April, will require all Web sites to get parental permission before gathering information from children under 13. The workshop is intended to help the FTC develop effective rules to carry out the Act. Evan Hendricks, editor of Privacy Times, is worried that business interests will have too much influence in determining privacy policies.
Receivers tend to treat e-mail like a paper document.
But senders tend to treat it informally and carelessly. And it feels urgent, even if it isn't. Because we send e-mails so fast, people expect an instant response. Since opening an inquiry into the interrelationship of the telecommunications network and computer-based services in 1966, the FCC has taken numerous affirmative steps to ensure that the marketplace, not regulation, allowed innovation and experimentation to flourish. As a result, a vast majority of Americans have inexpensive and reliable access to the Internet.