[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 56391-56392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22940]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
16 CFR Part 312
RIN 3084-AB20
The Federal Trade Commission's Implementation of the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Extension of deadline for submission of public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') is
extending the deadline for filing comments on its implementation of the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (``COPPA''), through the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (``COPPA Rule'' or ``the
Rule'').
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by
following the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section below. Write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16 CFR Part 312, Project No.
P195404,'' on your comment and file your comment online at https://www.regulations.gov by following the instructions on the web-based
form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your comment to
the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the
Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610 (Annex B),
Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center,
400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex B), Washington, DC
20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peder Magee (202-326-3358) or James
Trilling (202-326-3497), Division of Privacy and Identity Protection,
Federal
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Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Comment Period Extension
On July 25, 2019, the Commission published in the Federal Register
a Request for Public Comment on the Federal Trade Commission's
Implementation of the COPPA Rule (84 FR 35842), with an October 23,
2019 deadline for filing comments (``the Notice''). The Commission
published the Notice to facilitate the Commission's review of the COPPA
Rule to ensure that it has kept up with marketplace, technology, and
business model changes that have occurred since the Commission ended
its last review of the COPPA Rule in 2013. Interested parties have
subsequently requested an extension of the public comment period to
give them additional time to respond to the Notice's requests for
comment and to address actions that have occurred since the Commission
published the Notice, including the Commission's announcement of a new
COPPA enforcement action on September 4, 2019 and the completion of the
Commission's public workshop on ``The Future of the COPPA Rule'' on
October 7, 2019.
The Commission agrees that allowing additional time for filing
comments on its implementation of the COPPA Rule would help facilitate
the creation of a more complete record. The Commission has therefore
decided to extend the comment period for 45 days, to December 9, 2019.
A 45-day extension provides commenters adequate time to address the
issues raised in the Notice and relevant actions that have occurred
since the Commission published the Notice.
II. Request for Comment
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before December 9,
2019. Write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16 CFR Part 312, Project No.
P195404,'' on the comment. Your comment, including your name and your
state, will be placed on the public record of this proceeding,
including, to the extent practicable, on the https://www.regulations.gov website.
Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit
your comment online. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://www.regulations.gov by
following the instructions on the web-based form.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16
CFR Part 312, Project No. P195404,'' on your comment and on the
envelope, and mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
CC-5610 (Annex B), Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex
B), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, please submit your paper comment
to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible
website, https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for
making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive personal
information, such as your or anyone else's Social Security number, date
of birth, driver's license number or other state identification number
or foreign country equivalent, passport number, financial account
number, or credit or debit card number. You are also solely responsible
for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive health
information, such as medical records or other individually identifiable
health information. In addition, your comment should not include any
``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information which is
obtained from any person and which is privileged or confidential . . .
, '' as provided in Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade Commission Act
(``FTC Act''), 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR
4.10(a)(2), including, in particular, competitively sensitive
information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is
requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled
``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
In particular, the written request for confidential treatment that
accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for
the request, and must identify the specific portions of the comments to
be withheld from the public record. Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has
been posted publicly at www.regulations.gov--as legally required by FTC
Rule 4.9(c)--we cannot redact or remove your comment from the FTC
website, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the
requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General
Counsel grants the request.
Visit the Commission website at https://www.ftc.gov to read this
document and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws
that the Commission administers permit the collection of public
comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that
it receives on or before December 9, 2019. For information on the
Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the
Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-22940 Filed 10-21-19; 8:45 am]
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