Youth & Education Privacy

The Current State of Kids’ and Teens’ Privacy

November 7, 2023 @ 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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Please join us for a live virtual webinar on The Current State of Kids’ and Teens’ Privacy on Tuesday November 7, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET.

Privacy by design for kids and teens has expanded across the globe. Pioneering child privacy regulation and guidance in the U.K. and Ireland has drawn the attention of companies, advocates, and policymakers worldwide. The U.K.’s Age Appropriate Design Code went into effect in September 2021, and the Irish Fundamentals were released in December 2021 with immediate effect. The French CNIL completed a comprehensive review on data protection for children and subsequently released recommendations in August 2021. The California Age-Appropriate Design Code was signed into law in September 2022. Variations of the law have proliferated throughout the U.S.’s state legislatures this year while Congress and the FTC contemplate enhanced protections extending to all users under 18.

These frameworks are already influential worldwide and usher in sweeping changes for companies with child-directed services and – more broadly – any internet services with kids or teens as part of their audience. This panel will explore the basic principles behind Age Appropriate Design Codes, the variations in youth privacy approaches, and how global organizations are approaching these issues. Join us for a discussion to uncover these emerging issues and their impacts on U.S. corporate practice.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn about emerging global trends in children’s privacy, including new regulatory and legislative efforts
  • A better understanding of the interaction between COPPA, the U.K. Children’s Code, global child privacy initiatives, the California AADC (and pending litigation), and what can be learned for regulation and compliance moving forward
  • Tips and practical strategies for compliance and proactively addressing issues emerging from increased attention to children’s privacy

The webinar will include a moderated discussion with our panelists following their presentations. Please include any questions you’d like to be asked in your registration form.

This event is a live virtual webinar.

Speakers

Chloe Altieri

Policy Counsel, Youth & Education Privacy, Future of Privacy Forum

Chloe Altieri is a Policy Counsel with the Youth and Education Privacy Team. Her work contributes to FPF’s ongoing projects relating to education technology, legal research, and student privacy. Before joining FPF as a fellow, Chloe worked on the Youth and Education team as a Student Contractor.

Chloe graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law with her Juris Doctor. During her time in law school, Chloe was a member and the Executive Web Editor of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. She also served as the Student Director of UNC Law’s Pro Bono Program and received the North Carolina State Bar’s annual student Pro Bono Service Award in 2021. She spent a semester in UNC Law’s Intellectual Property Clinic and was the Executive Member of the Holderness International Moot Court Jessup competing team. Chloe earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with majors in Psychology and Political Science and a minor in History.

Phyllis H. Marcus

Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Phyllis H. Marcus is a Partner at the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where she heads the firm’s Advertising Compliance and Counseling practice. She focuses on privacy and advertising counseling for retail, consumer products, media and technology clients. Phyllis has unique expertise with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, state children’s privacy laws, and the FTC’s advertising principles. Prior to joining Hunton, Phyllis served for 17 years in the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, including as Chief of Staff for Advertising Practices. Phyllis spearheaded the 2010-2012 review leading to the seminal overhaul of the FTC’s COPPA Rule.

Phyllis is a Chambers ranked leading lawyer for advertising counseling, a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer in Cyber Law, Data Protection, and Privacy, was named one of the Top 10 Advertising (Transactional & Regulatory) Lawyers in the U.S., and identified as a Media and Advertising Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. Phyllis is frequently quoted on FTC, children’s privacy, and advertising issues. In the past, Phyllis has co-chaired the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Information Security Committee, served as a member of the Research Advisory Board for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop’s By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences initiative, and has participated on Law360’s Privacy & Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Boards. Phyllis graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan’s Law School in 1993, and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and clerked on the Maryland Supreme Court.

Michael Murray

Head of Regulatory Policy, UK Information Commissioner's Office

Michael Murray is Head of Regulatory Policy at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In this role, Michael leads on policy development related to the Children’s code (formally known as the Age appropriate design code) and on wider children’s privacy policy and engagement with online and digital services, regulators and civil society organisations in the UK and internationally. His team also leads on the development of age assurance policy at the ICO.

In addition to children’s privacy policy development, Michael is leading elements of the ICO’s policy development to support readiness for the UK’s pending Data Protection and Digital Information Bill currently working its way through Parliament.

Michael has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors working in senior roles in the legal advice, charity and grants sectors prior to joining the ICO.

Shanna Pearce

Managing Counsel, Family Experience, Epic Games

Shanna Pearce is Managing Counsel of Family Experience at Epic Games where she counsels on youth privacy and safety. She advises on topics ranging from default settings to parental controls to help create gaming experiences which are fun and welcoming for all ages.

Pascale Raulin-Serrier

Senior Advisor in Digital Education and Coordinator DEWG (Digital Education Working Group), French CNIL

Pascale RAULIN-SERRIER is working as Digital Education expert at the French CNIL (Data Protection Authority). Pascale is currently addressing awareness workshops and training activities on privacy best practices. Pascale has been developing national and international collaborative projects targeted towards children, Youth and educators in digital education,  including an international Data Protection Competency framework. She has been leading the Digital Education Working Group (DEWG) of 80 Data Protection Authorities worldwide aiming at sharing sense-making practices and quality resources in privacy matters and promoting children’s rights in the digital environment to international organisations. Pascale also works as a member of the Council of Europe’s expert group on Digital Citizenship Education.