Enacted in 1998, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was established to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. Under the act, no website could solicit personal information from users under the age of 13 without parental permission. The internet is ever-changing, however, and in recent years the US government has looked at whether to expand the law to teenagers up to age 18. This was primarily in response to the explosion of minors using social media sites that collect a variety of user data. Debate Questions: Should COPPA be extended to prohibit websites from collecting data on minors aged 13-17 without parental consent? The YES! team says that COPPA should be extended to minors age 13-17, and this Giga is here to talk for them and why they think that COPPA should be extended to minors ages 13-17 years old.
