Facebook Wants Child Privacy Exclusion for ‘Likes’

October 1, 2012

The social networking giant Facebook has told the Obama administration that child privacy laws should not apply to a Web site’s ability to incorporate a “like” button, because that would inhibit free expression. The company sent a 20-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission in which it objected to certain proposed revisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

Comments on this entry are closed.