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Children's Online Privacy

What is Children's Online Privacy?

Legal frameworks and practices for protecting the personal information of children collected online, including COPPA requirements for parental consent.

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What the standards actually require on children's online privacy

Requirements naming children's online privacy across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

Schedule 1 Part 4 requires the Commissioner to develop and register a Children's Online Privacy Code (child: an individual under 18) setting out how one or more APPs apply to children's privacy, within 24 months of Royal Assent (by 10 December 2026).

privacy-and-other-legislation-amendment-act-2024-australia::26GC · s 26GC: comply with the Children's Online Privacy Code once registered, where bound →

A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users (Australian children under 16) having accounts with the platform.

australia-online-safety-act-2021::s63D-63E · Take reasonable steps to prevent under-16s having accounts →

A controller must obtain the consumer's consent (a clear affirmative, freely given, specific, informed, unambiguous act) before processing sensitive data, and for a known child's sensitive data must process it in line with the Children's Online Privacy Protect...

tennessee-information-protection-act-tipa::S3305-4 · Obtain consent before processing sensitive data; follow COPPA for known children →

Questions people ask about children's online privacy

What is Children's Online Privacy?
Legal frameworks and practices for protecting the personal information of children collected online, including COPPA requirements for parental consent.
Why is Children's Online Privacy important for compliance?
Children's Online Privacy is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding children's online privacy helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Children's Online Privacy?
Children's Online Privacy appears in the requirement text of Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (Australia), Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act, Australia Online Safety Act 2021, Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA). Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Children's Online Privacy?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how children's online privacy applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Children's Online Privacy applies across compliance frameworks

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