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CARU's Tips for Parents: Safe and Efficient Holiday Shopping
Nov 24, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National Programs2020 has been a year unlike any other. In a time of great uncertainty, facing the holidays can feel be daunting. When it comes to holiday shopping, it is safe to say that many of us will be primarily shopping online this year. To help ensure your online holiday shopping experience is safe and efficient this holiday season, the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) team has put together some tips and red flags to consider when making those all-important gift selections.Full story -
After Seven Months, the Verdict is in: Fast-Track SWIFT is Fast and Fair
Nov 19, 2020, 10:55 AM by BBB National ProgramsThe National Advertising Division (NAD) Fast-Track SWIFT advertising challenge process launched seven months ago as a faster way to resolve single-issue cases. The process has kept its promise of fast and fair decisions. This blog covers lessons learned and best practices gathered by the NAD team since the launch of SWIFT.Full story -
Risky Business: A New Study Assessing Teen Privacy in Mobile Apps
Oct 29, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsTeen privacy is more at risk online than ever. The TeenAge Privacy Program (TAPP) new whitepaper, Risky Business: The Current State of Teen Privacy in the Android App Marketplace, examines how teens put themselves at risk when they engage with mobile apps.Full story -
NAD 2020: A Virtually Stellar Advertising Law Conference
Oct 15, 2020, 09:01 AM by BBB National ProgramsThis year the National Advertising Division (NAD) Annual Conference, NAD 2020, welcomed marketing and advertising law experts to a virtual event that featured high-caliber keynote speakers, cutting-edge panels on advertising law, and key topics such as COVID-19 fraud, diversity and bias in advertising law, and the controversial role of social media. Here are some takeaways from the event that we found worthy of a call-out.Full story -
Defining 'Child-Directed' and Addressing New Technology: Discussing COPPA Updates at CARU 2020
Sep 23, 2020, 09:52 AM by BBB National ProgramsOn September 22, the 2020 CARU Conference kicked off the Fall Series with a keynote from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC)'s Peder Magee, and Phyllis Marcus, a Partner at Huton Andrews Kurth and one of the original authors of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).Full story -
What Parents Need to Know About Mobile App and Device Permissions
Sep 17, 2020, 10:18 AM by BBB National ProgramsIf there is one thing most parents know, it’s that Kids. Love. Apps. But how do you determine what apps are "safe" for your child to download? If you want to evaluate an app to determine how safe your child’s data will be if they use it, let's start by understanding the permissions the app asks for.Full story -
Schrems II: What Do Privacy Shield Businesses Need to Know?
Sep 15, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsSchrems II addressed two mechanisms for transferring EU individuals’ personal data outside the EU. As the situation continues to develop, businesses should pause to review their data flows, contracts, and substantive commitments, and their current chain of compliance and accountability for data received from the EU.Full story -
CARU’s Summer Series Wrap-Up: The Need-to-Know Takeaways from our Expert Speakers
Sep 3, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsNow at the halfway point of the CARU Conference 2020, it seems like a good time to reflect on the four sessions of the Summer Series that are under our belt and the key takeaways from our expert speakers.Full story -
Webinar: Now What? Cross-Border Data Transfers after Schrems II
Sep 2, 2020, 10:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsThis webinar, hosted by BigID on August 12, 2020, includes an expert panel discussing the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield pact in the “Schrems II” judgement. Hear top considerations for privacy professionals as they brace themselves from the fallout of Schrems II and what the future holds for cross border data transfers.Full story -
What the EDPB Says about Art. 49 Derogations for EU-U.S. Data Transfers
Sep 1, 2020, 12:00 PM by BBB National ProgramsFollowing the Schrems II decision, all businesses that rely on EU-U.S. transfers of personal data are waiting on further guidance to determine how to meet new EU standards. One piece of this puzzle is the single transfer mechanism that has not been called into question at this time: derogations under Article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Full story -
COPPA and Children's Privacy: What Parents Should Know and Do
Aug 20, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsAs a parent, it can be difficult to keep up with all the ways your child uses technology. From board books to iPads, weekend cartoons to YouTube, even traditional schooling has had to adapt to online classes. Trying to stay on top of what your child is watching, what ads they are seeing, and what is happening with their data can be overwhelming, but understanding COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, can help.Full story -
Location Data and Privacy
Aug 20, 2020, 09:00 AM by Digital Advertising Accountability ProgramIn today’s digital world, we carry around networked supercomputers that would make the machines that launched a rocket to the moon look laughable.Full story -
COVID-19 and its Impact on the Future of Privacy and Tech
Aug 13, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsAs political leaders around the world struggle to address the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s of little surprise they are turning to new technologies to stop the spread. The efficacy of those technologies is being tested every day, and winners and losers are already being identified.Full story -
Contact Tracing and Tech: An International Comparison
Jul 9, 2020, 13:59 PM by BBB National ProgramsWhile almost all contact tracing strategies rely on traditional means, many employ modern communications technologies: sensors, Bluetooth, GPS, thermal recognition, facial-recognition, and geofencing.Full story -
Caution and Criticism: Contact Tracing through Mobile Apps
Jul 9, 2020, 13:59 PM by BBB National ProgramsThough governments and corporations have marshalled impressive resources to develop these strategies, contact tracing powered by smartphones comes with inevitable challenges, regardless of the technologies used and the categories of contact data generated.Full story -
Contact Tracing: The Technology
Jul 9, 2020, 13:59 PM by BBB National ProgramsImagine that you have been placed in charge of setting up a contact tracing system using the smartphones already in the hands of the public. As we explained in our first piece in this series, one of the main goals of this system is to alert those who may have come into contact with others infected with coronavirus.Full story -
Privacy and App-Driven Contact Tracing
Jul 9, 2020, 13:58 PM by BBB National ProgramsSARS-CoV-2, commonly known as coronavirus, hit the world by storm, altering the lives of people from the American midwest to Shanghai. As the world unites to “flatten the curve” and guard the surge capacities of hospitals, a common term that has emerged is “contact tracing.” Contact tracing is broadly defined as monitoring individuals that have had contact with a person infected by a disease to ensure that they get treatment and prevent further transmission.Full story -
Influencers, Kids, COPPA, and Compliance to Kickoff CARU 2020
Jun 16, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsOn May 28, the 2020 CARU Conference officially kicked off with a keynote from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Andrew Smith, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. Andrew joined moderator Alice Cahn, Founder of Cahnworks and a legacy name in children’s media, for a virtual fireside chat about the changing landscape of child-directed content over the last few years.Full story -
The Mobile App Playground: Looking Out for Kids’ Data Privacy
Jun 11, 2020, 09:01 AM by BBB National ProgramsThe FTC has just announced that they have reached a settlement with children’s app developer, HyperBeard, for unlawfully collecting data from children, users under 13, and using it to target them for behavioral advertising, otherwise known as interest-based advertising.Full story -
How to Protect Children’s Privacy Beyond Parental Controls
May 22, 2020, 09:00 AM by BBB National ProgramsChildren’s privacy is a hot topic in the media these days. It may seem like a new concern but we at the BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) have been keeping an eye on it since the beginning. CARU was established decades ago to promote responsible advertising to children at a time when advertising was mainly on television. The self-regulatory program and its guidelines were designed to adapt to changes in the marketing and media landscape – offline and online - so when concerns about online data collection practices arose, CARU was able to get a jump on it even before lawmakers could pass the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in 1998.Full story
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