Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
Public Workshop
July 20, 1999
Federal Trade Commission

Agenda

7:30 a.m.
Registration

8:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Jodie Bernstein, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

8:45 a.m.
Session I: What methods are websites currently using to obtain parental consent? Do these methods comply with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for "verifiable parental consent"? Do they provide sufficient assurance that the person providing the consent is the child's parent? What are the costs and/or benefits to parents and to websites of these methods? (Note: A full discussion of e-mail mechanisms will take place in Session II.)

Moderator: Lee Peeler, Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Participants:
Parry Aftab, Cyberspace lawyer specializing in children's Internet issues
Kris Bagwell, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, MTV Networks Online
Paula Bruening, Director, Compliance and Policy, TRUSTe
Jorian Clarke, President, Circle 1 Network/KidsCom
Caroline Curtin, Manager, Network Standards and Policy, America Online, Inc.
John Kamp, Senior Vice President, American Association of Advertising Agencies
Kathryn Montgomery, President, Center for Media Education
Charulata Pagar, Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood, on behalf of Promotion Marketing Association, Inc.
Rebecca Randall, Vice President, Marketing, MaMaMedia, Inc.
Jeff Richards, Executive Director, Internet Alliance
Cassidy Sehgal-Kolbet, Staff Attorney, Children's Advertising Review Unit, Council of Better Business Bureaus

10:30 a.m.
Open Comment Period for Session I

10:45 a.m.
Break

11:00 a.m.
Session II: Do e-mail mechanisms comply with the requirements of COPPA for verifiable parental consent? Do they provide sufficient assurance that the person providing the consent is the child's parent? What e-mail products or services are currently available or under development that websites could use to obtain verifiable parental consent? What are the costs and/or benefits to parents and to websites of such products or services?

Moderator: Toby Levin, Team Leader, Internet Advertising Program, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Participants:
Eric Aledort, Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, Buena Vista Internet Group, Walt Disney Company
James Brandt, Director, Federal Markets, VeriSign, Inc.
Jason Catlett, President, Junkbusters Corporation
Mary Ellen Fise, General Counsel, Consumer Federation of America
Leslie Harris, Leslie Harris & Associates, on behalf of American Library Association
R. Paul Herman, CEO, iCanBuy.com, inc.
Daniel Jaffe, Executive Vice President, Association of National Advertisers, Inc.
Katharina Kopp, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Media Education
Leanna Landsmann, President, TIME For Kids
Sheila Millar, Keller and Heckman LLP, on behalf of Mars Incorporated
Ronald Plesser, Piper & Marbury LLP, on behalf of Direct Marketing Association
Jim Teicher, CEO, CyberSmart!
Eric Wenger, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Attorney General's Office

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

1:45 p.m.
Session II (continued)

2:30 p.m.
Open Comment Period for Session II

2:45 p.m.
Session III: What other technologies, products, or services are currently available or under development that websites could use to obtain verifiable parental consent? What are the costs and/or benefits to parents and to websites of such products or services?

Moderator: David Medine, Associate Director, Division of Financial Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Participants:
Oscar Batyrbaev, CEO, eOneID.com
Evan Hendricks, Editor/Publisher, Privacy Times
Austin Hill, President, Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc.
Jeffrey Johnson, General Manager, Equifax Secure, Inc.
Steven Lucas, CIO and Senior Vice President, Industry Government Relations, PrivaSeek, Inc.
Deirdre Mulligan, Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
Kevin O'Neil, Manager, Information Risk Management, KPMG LLP
Priscilla Regan, Associate Professor of Government and Politics, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University

4:15 p.m.
Open Comment Period for Session III

4:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks