FTC Approves Videogame Industry’s COPPA Rule Change on Personal Data

The FTC approved Entertainment Software Rating Board-proposed changes to a self-regulatory program on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (see 1805070041), the agency announced Tuesday. ESRB proposed changing the definition of “personal information and data,” based on new commission guidance on audio recording collection. Commissioners 5-0 incorporated some privacy concerns from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Center for Digital Democracy and Electronic Privacy Information Center, which proposed alterations. For example, the first two groups proposed the FTC “include language that would make it a requirement -- instead of a suggestion -- to limit collection of ‘personal information and data,’” the agency said.