Two congressmen voiced concerns Monday following a Wall Street Journal report that Facebook was exploring ways to let kids join the social network without lying about their age. Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey and Texas Republican Joe Barton fired off a letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg with 14 paragraphs’ worth of questions about technology the [...]
Aristotle’s J. Blair Richardson Jr. will be speaking at the Internet Gaming Regulation Symposium on the topic of Age and ID Verification on May 18th, 2012. The UNLV Boyd School of Law is sponsoring a symposium and the publication of a comparative law book on best practices as it relates to the regulation of Internet [...]
Aristotle Integrity now provides the highest order of identity verification ever offered by means of a face-to-face video interaction. The video verification is a fully documented interaction in a secure, auditable form. Through secure video streaming such as Skype™, our compliance specialists take a real-time photo of an individual using that person’s webcam and compares [...]
Sites focusing on children are empowered by innovative mechanisms without compromising safety The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved The Integrity Children’s Privacy Compliance Program, designed by Aristotle International, as a “safe harbor” program under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) on Friday. The COPPA rule grants websites that target viewers ages 13 and under [...]
Law360, New York (February 28, 2012, 7:35 PM ET) — The Federal Trade Commission said Friday it would allow an Aristotle International Inc. program to establish children’s online privacy guidelines and oversee compliance with those guidelines, making Aristotle just the fifth organization to win safe harbor under an agency rule. Read more.
Children’s sites get new methods to obtain parental consent; streamlined ‘frictionless’ and ‘commercially reasonable’ methods a boost to business, parent-friendly Washington, DC (February 27, 2011) — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that commissioners voted unanimously to approve The Integrity Children’s Privacy Compliance Program, designed by Aristotle International, as a “safe harbor” program [...]
The Integrity Children’s Privacy Compliance Program, designed by Aristotle, just got word today that it was approved by the FTC as a “safe harbor” program. Read the FTC’s release here.
Justice Department Ruling Boosts Aristotle’s Integrity Solution State Lotteries, Online Gaming Operators Welcome Obama Administration Decision Company’s technology for online age- and identity-verification already deployed by 8 of 10 largest gaming operators, state lotteries Washington, DC (December 29, 2011) — Aristotle International, the leading provider of online age- and identity-verification today welcomed the new interpretation [...]
Whether it is identity theft, online tracking, or profiling, the Internet can be an open door to a child’s personal information. A Wall Street Journalinvestigation into online privacy last year found that popular children’s websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults. Read the full blog.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris had just managed to successfully unnerve a group of about 100 parents and educators with this online exchange between two 16-year-olds. Read the full article.
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