[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 56391-56392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22940]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

16 CFR Part 312

RIN 3084-AB20


The Federal Trade Commission's Implementation of the Children's 
Online Privacy Protection Rule

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Extension of deadline for submission of public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') is 
extending the deadline for filing comments on its implementation of the 
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (``COPPA''), through the 
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (``COPPA Rule'' or ``the 
Rule'').

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by 
following the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section below. Write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16 CFR Part 312, Project No. 
P195404,'' on your comment and file your comment online at https://www.regulations.gov by following the instructions on the web-based 
form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your comment to 
the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the 
Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610 (Annex B), 
Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address: 
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center, 
400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex B), Washington, DC 
20024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peder Magee (202-326-3358) or James 
Trilling (202-326-3497), Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, 
Federal

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Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Comment Period Extension

    On July 25, 2019, the Commission published in the Federal Register 
a Request for Public Comment on the Federal Trade Commission's 
Implementation of the COPPA Rule (84 FR 35842), with an October 23, 
2019 deadline for filing comments (``the Notice''). The Commission 
published the Notice to facilitate the Commission's review of the COPPA 
Rule to ensure that it has kept up with marketplace, technology, and 
business model changes that have occurred since the Commission ended 
its last review of the COPPA Rule in 2013. Interested parties have 
subsequently requested an extension of the public comment period to 
give them additional time to respond to the Notice's requests for 
comment and to address actions that have occurred since the Commission 
published the Notice, including the Commission's announcement of a new 
COPPA enforcement action on September 4, 2019 and the completion of the 
Commission's public workshop on ``The Future of the COPPA Rule'' on 
October 7, 2019.
    The Commission agrees that allowing additional time for filing 
comments on its implementation of the COPPA Rule would help facilitate 
the creation of a more complete record. The Commission has therefore 
decided to extend the comment period for 45 days, to December 9, 2019. 
A 45-day extension provides commenters adequate time to address the 
issues raised in the Notice and relevant actions that have occurred 
since the Commission published the Notice.

II. 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 December 9, 
2019. Write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16 CFR Part 312, Project No. 
P195404,'' on the 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 https://www.regulations.gov website.
    Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to 
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit 
your comment online. To make sure that the Commission considers your 
online comment, you must file it at https://www.regulations.gov by 
following the instructions on the web-based form.
    If you file your comment on paper, write ``COPPA Rule Review, 16 
CFR Part 312, Project No. P195404,'' on your comment and on the 
envelope, and mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade 
Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 
CC-5610 (Annex B), Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the 
following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex 
B), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, please submit your paper comment 
to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
    Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible 
website, https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for 
making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive personal 
information, such as your or anyone else'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 does not include any sensitive health 
information, such as medical records or other individually identifiable 
health information. In addition, your comment should not 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 Federal Trade Commission Act 
(``FTC Act''), 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 
4.10(a)(2), including, in particular, competitively sensitive 
information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, 
patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
    Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is 
requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled 
``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 
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 comments to 
be withheld from the public record. Your comment will be kept 
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in 
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has 
been posted publicly at www.regulations.gov--as legally required by FTC 
Rule 4.9(c)--we cannot redact or remove your comment from the FTC 
website, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the 
requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General 
Counsel grants the request.
    Visit the Commission website at https://www.ftc.gov to read this 
document 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 December 9, 2019. For information on the 
Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the 
Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.

    By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-22940 Filed 10-21-19; 8:45 am]
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