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US FTC warns of conflicts in removing Aristotle from 'Safe Harbor' program for kids' privacy law enforcement

By Mike Swift ( August 4, 2021, 22:28 GMT | Insight) -- For the first time in the privacy program’s 20-year history, the US Federal Trade Commission removed a private self-regulatory “safe harbor” from enforcement of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Today’s strongly worded FTC statement removing Aristotle International from that program appears to signal a turn toward more muscular oversight of private self-regulatory programs — signaling that there should be no financial relationship between entities subject to regulation and operators of the programs.For the first time in the privacy program’s 20-year history, the US Federal Trade Commission removed a private self-regulatory “safe harbor” from enforcement of the federal children’s digital privacy law, with a senior official saying the company was wrong to collect money from websites and apps it oversaw....

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