FTC Settles COPPA Violation Charges Against Yelp and TinyCo
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
On September 17, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the online review site Yelp, Inc., and mobile app developer TinyCo, Inc., have agreed to settle separate charges that they collected personal information from children without parental consent, in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”). Yelp. According to the FTC’s complaint against Yelp, from 2009 to 2013, Yelp app users had to provide information such as their name, email address, ZIP code
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