Learning Takeaways for Week 4

1. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires a website to obtain consent from parents before collecting information from a child under the age of 13.

2: The Federal Trade Commission has recently allowed websites to use photo verification to collect consent from parents to bypass COPPA.

3: Biometric Data can entail a number of things, including but not limited to:

• Palm and Fingerprints
• DNA
• Facial Structure
• Gait
• Typing Rhythm
• Body Proportions
• Retna Scans

4: Because of privacy concerns expressed by those countries, Facebook has disabled "Tag Suggestions", their facial recognition system, in the EU.

5:  Facebook is currently being sued because of alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

6: Privacy Concerns for Biometrics can be categorized into 8 different groups:

• Collection: How is the data collected? Are people even aware the data is being collected?
• Storage/Retention: Should you retain the data? How long?
• Usage: Who can use it, and how?
• Access: Who has access to this information?
• Data Security: How do we secure the biometric information?
• Data Errors: How are errors handled?
• Regulation/compliance: What regulations should be created, and how can they be enforced?
• “Big Brother”: What protections are there against a totalitarian state?