Assignment 2: COPA and CIPA
Due Week 4 and worth 70 points
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA) and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) are both intended to
provide protections for children accessing the Internet. However, they both
have had some opposition.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in
which you:
Describe the main compliancy requirements and the
protected information for both COPPA and CIPA.
Analyze how COPPA and CIPA are similar and how they are
different, and explain why there is a need for two (2) different acts.
Describe what you believe are the most challenging
elements of both COPPA and CIPA to implement in order to be compliant.
Speculate on why COPPA and CIPA define protection for
different ages; COPPA defines a child as being under the age of 13 and CIPA
defines a minor as being under the age of 17.
Identify the main opposition to COPPA and CIPA based on
research and speculate on whether they will be changed in the future based on
the opposition.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this
assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.
