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[ NNSquad ] Facebook Says Child Privacy Laws Should Not Apply to 'Like' Buttons
Facebook Says Child Privacy Laws Should Not Apply to 'Like' Buttons http://j.mp/OA8qM5 (New York Times) "The social networking giant Facebook has told the Obama administration that child privacy laws should not apply to a Web site's ability to incorporate a "like" button, because that would inhibit free expression." - - - I haven't looked at Facebook's argument on this in detail yet, but my initial impression is that if they don't already have independently collected data on a particular child (e.g., on the main Facebook site) then that child clicking Like on some other site should not be a significant issue for regulatory attention. If they do have data on that child at their own site, that may be the appropriate focus for attention, not the Like buttons, per se. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad