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U.S.: FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement to Incentivize the Use of Age Verification Technologies to Protect Children Online

By Andrew Serwin on February 25, 2026

Posted in Children's data, COPPA, Enforcement, FTC

The FTC just released a policy statement regarding enforcement activities related to COPPA, which can be found at this link.

According to Christopher Mufarrige, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, age verification technologies are important child-protective technologies, and this policy statement “…incentivizes operators to use these innovative tools, empowering parents to protect…

FTC Reiterates that Hashed and Pseudonymized Data is Still Identifiable Data

By Kate Lucente & Lea Lurquin on July 26, 2024

Posted in Cyber security, FTC, Privacy Law

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reiterated its long-held view that hashing or pseudonymizing identifiers does not render data anonymous, in a post to its Technology Blog on July 24, 2024.

In the rather strongly worded post, while acknowledging that hashing and pseudonymizing data has the benefit of obscuring the underlying personal data, the FTC…

US: The FTC Cracks Down on Sensitive Personal Information Disclosures

By Kate Lucente, Lea Lurquin, Madison Bucci & Matt Dhaiti on April 26, 2024

Posted in FTC

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is taking bold actions to challenge business’s collection and monetization of consumers’ personal data—particularly sensitive personal data. This month, the FTC reached settlements with a data broker, X-Mode Social and its successor Outlogic LLC (“X-Mode”), and an alcohol addiction treatment firm, Monument Inc. (“Monument”), for, among other things, allegedly selling…