At the NAD & CARU West Coast conferences on May 1-2 in San Francisco, BakerHostetler partner Alan Friel will moderate a session titled "The State of COPPA." Alan will engage Jonathan Adler, an Assistant Attorney General in the Bureau of Internet and Technology at the New York State Attorney General's Office, and Stacey Schesser, Supervising Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, in a lively discussion around trends and practices relating to the online collection of personal information from children. Enacted twenty years ago, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act established an important regulatory framework for commercial practices on children's websites, a set of "rules of the road," in effect, to guide the development of the children's digital marketplace. For more information, click here.

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