Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, regulations requiring verifiable parental consent (15 U.S.C. 6502(b)(1)(A))
A website or app aimed at children under 13, or one that knows it collects from such a child, needs verifiable parental consent before it discloses a child's personal information. Licensing children's data to train AI without that consent violates the rule the FTC enforces under this section.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“the Commission shall promulgate under section 553 of title 5 regulations that ... (A) require the operator of any website or online service directed to children that collects personal information from children or the operator of a website or online service that has actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a child ... (ii) to obtain verifiable parental consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from children;”
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