[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 104 (Tuesday, May 31, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31334-31336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13357]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Extension

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'').

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The information collection requirements described below will 
be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for 
review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA''). The FTC 
is seeking public comments on its proposal to extend through August 31, 
2014, the current PRA clearance for information collection requirements 
contained in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (``COPPA 
Rule''). That clearance expires on August 31, 2011.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 30, 2011.

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ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by 
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``COPPA Rule: Paperwork 
Comment, FTC File No. P114504'' on your comment, and file your comment 
online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/coppapra2, by 
following the instructions on the Web-based form. If you prefer to file 
your comment on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following 
address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 
(Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for copies of the collection 
of information and supporting documentation should be addressed to 
Mamie Kresses, Attorney, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 
NW., Mail Drop NJ-3212, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-2070.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR part 312.
    OMB Control Number: 3084-0117.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The COPPA Rule contains certain statutorily-required 
notice requirements that apply to operators of any Web site or online 
service directed to children, and operators of any Web site or online 
service with actual knowledge of collecting personal information from 
children. Covered operators must: Provide online notice and direct 
notice to parents of how they collect, use, and disclose children's 
personal information; obtain the prior consent of the child's parent in 
order to engage in such collection, use, and disclosure, with limited 
exceptions; provide reasonable means for the parent to obtain access to 
the information and to direct its deletion; and, establish procedures 
that protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal 
information collected from children.
    On February 9, 2011, the Commission sought comment on the 
information collection requirements associated with the COPPA Rule. 76 
FR 7211. No comments were received. Pursuant to the OMB regulations, 5 
CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC 
is providing this second opportunity for public comment while seeking 
OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rule.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 6,100 hours (6,000 hours for disclosure 
requirements + 100 hours for safe harbor participants' voluntary 
reporting requirements).
    Likely Respondents, Estimated Number of Respondents, Estimated 
Average Burden per Respondent:
    (a) Disclosures--Operators of covered Web sites and online 
services, 60 hours/operator for 100 new operators annually;
    (b) Reporting--Voluntary safe harbor program applicants--100 hours 
annualized for an estimated single applicant during the prospective 3-
year PRA clearance period.
    Frequency of Response: Once.
    Operators have to maintain the required notice on their Web sites 
and provide individual direct notices to parents of children newly 
engaging or registering online at operators' Web sites and online 
services.
    Total Annual Labor Cost: $816,000.\1\
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    \1\ See 76 FR at 7212-7213 for the details and calculations 
underlying this total.
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    Total Annual Capital or Other Non-Labor Cost: Minimal.
    Request for Comment: You can file a comment online or on paper. For 
the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or 
before June 30, 2011. Write ``COPPA Rule: Paperwork Comment, FTC File 
No. P114504'' on your comment. Your comment--including your name and 
your state--will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, 
including, to the extent practicable, on the public Commission Web 
site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of 
discretion, the Commission tries to remove individuals' home contact 
information from comments before placing them on the Commission Web 
site.
    Because your comment will be made public, you are solely 
responsible for making sure that your comment doesn't include any 
sensitive personal information, like anyone's Social Security number, 
date of birth, driver's license number or other state identification 
number or foreign country equivalent, passport number, financial 
account number, or credit or debit card number. You are also solely 
responsible for making sure that your comment doesn't include any 
sensitive health information, like medical records or other 
individually identifiable health information. In addition, don't 
include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information 
which is obtained from any person and which is privileged or 
confidential,'' as provided in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 
46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2). In particular, don't 
include competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales 
statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing 
processes, or customer names.
    If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential 
treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for 
confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained 
in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).\2\ Your comment will be kept 
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel, in his or her sole 
discretion, grants your request in accordance with the law and the 
public interest.
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    \2\ In particular, the written request for confidential 
treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and 
legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions 
of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 
4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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    Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to 
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit 
your comments online. To make sure that the Commission considers your 
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/coppapra2, by following the instructions on the Web-based form. If 
this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also may 
file a comment through that Web site.
    If you file your comment on paper, write ``COPPA Rule: Paperwork 
Comment, FTC File No. P114504'' on your comment and on the envelope, 
and mail or deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade 
Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit 
your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
    Visit the Commission Web site at http://www.ftc.gov to read this 
Notice and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws 
that the Commission administers permit the collection of public 
comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The 
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that 
it receives on or before June 30, 2011. You can find more information, 
including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in the 
Commission's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.shtm.
    Comments on the information collection requirements subject to 
review under the PRA should additionally be submitted to OMB. If

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sent by U.S. mail, they should be addressed to Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: 
Desk Officer for the Federal Trade Commission, New Executive Office 
Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, 
DC 20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S. postal mail, however, are 
subject to delays due to heightened security precautions. Thus, 
comments instead should be sent by facsimile to (202) 395-5167.

Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-13357 Filed 5-27-11; 8:45 am]
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