Understanding FTC Rules on Children Online Privacy Protection Act

Kandi Parsons is an attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection in Bureau of Consumer Protection, at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. Kandi works on a variety of policy and litigation matters involving the privacy and security of consumer information. She investigates and prosecutes violations of consumer privacy and information security under Section 5 of the FTC Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Safeguards and Privacy Rules of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. She is also one of the privacy attorneys handling enforcement of the COPPA Rule. Before joining the FTC, Kandi was an associate with Hogan Lovells, specializing in health care privacy, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable John Steadman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Kandi received her BA from Columbia University and her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Alan Friel is a partner at Edwards Wildman and Chair of the Media and Technology Licensing and Transactions practice, Co-Chair of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice, and on the steering committees of both the Intellectual Property and Privacy and Data Protection Departments. He is a thought leader regarding privacy, data security, technology, regulatory and intellectual property implications of using mobile, social and digital media. He also has a long affiliation as an Assistant Professor in a multi-disciplinary project at the Graduate School of TV, Film and Digital Media at UCLA where he helps groom the next generation of new media lawyers, executives and creatives.

Mr. Friel is AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is ranked amongst the 2013 Top Rated Lawyers in Technology by American Lawyer Media. He is an International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Certified Privacy Professional and sits on the Advisory Board of the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU). He graduated with a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, an EPM from UCLA Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. from Georgia State University.

Joanne Furtsch is a leading expert in global online privacy practices spanning website, advertising, mobile and application privacy with deep specialization in COPPA and European Union Safe Harbor compliance. Joanne is currently Director of Product Policy at TRUSTe the leading privacy certification and compliance authority on the web. Joanne joined TRUSTe in 1999, and oversaw many operational, policy and product functions, and is responsible for TRUSTe’s program requirements that define the basis of the certification products and operations.

Joanne has contributed extensive practical expertise on a number of ground-breaking services TRUSTe offers to customers, including TRUSTed Data Collection certification, TRUSTe’s Small Business solution, European Union Safe Harbor Seal program, Email Privacy Seal program, and the Trusted Downloads Program that all help businesses enhance consumer trust, drive increased registrations and transactions, and comply with complex privacy requirements.

Joanne has written on a variety of privacy-related topics including Privacy Advice on Companies Using Social Network Tools, and contributing to TRUSTe’s public comments on the FTC Privacy Report and Department of Commerce’s Privacy Green Paper. Joanne currently serves on the Privacy Committee for the Mobile Marketing Association co-chairing the Location-based Services working group to develop privacy guidelines for location-based services. Joanne has also served on the Advisory Committee to develop the Recommended Practices on California Information-Sharing Disclosures and Privacy Policy Statements for the California Office of Privacy Protection. She graduated with a B.A. in Finance from California State University, Fullerton, and holds both CIPP and CIPP/C certifications.

Wayne J. Keeley is the Director of the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Mr. Keeley joined CARU from the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, where he served as the Assistant Director for Development. During his tenure at NAD, Mr. Keeley authored more than 100 decisions. Before joining NAD in 2000, Mr. Keeley served as general counsel for two independent video and film-production studios. Mr. Keeley is an award-winning producer of public service announcements (PSAs) aimed at young people, addressing such issues as self-esteem, child safety and drug use. He most recently worked with Olympia Dukakis to produce a PSA on Duschennes muscular dystrophy for the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy organization.

Mr. Keeley is a graduate of Fordham College, Bronx, NY; St. John’s School of Law, Jamaica, NY and New York University.