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House lawmakers introduce bill to update children's online privacy law:
A pair of House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday to update a decades-old law designed to protect children's online privacy. The bill comes amid growing concern that children are encountering increasingly sophisticated threats online.
The Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today Act (PDF), introduced by Republican Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan and Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois, aims to strengthen the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) to address the ever-evolving digital landscape, the lawmakers said.
"Children today are more connected online and face dangers that we could not have imagined years ago," Walberg said in a statement. "While advancements in technology allows for many benefits, it also poses a risk for our kids."
The legislation would allow parents to force companies to delete any private information they've collected about their children. It would also raise the raise the age of parental consent protections from the current 13 years of age to 16.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @11:15PM (2 children)
Just a personal note here:
I find some of your comments interesting or otherwise informative. However, a fair portion of the images you link to are either barely on topic or take more time to read than your comments.
The images are probably fun to make, but many hard to read. A fair portion are incredibly dense, data-wise. Some also have parts that are very low contrast(black text on maroon/dark red/brown background and such). This leads to the feeling that they are cluttered and raises the effort needed to read it.
Imagine that your audience just woke up and hasn't had their first cup of coffee. When I see a list of a half dozen links it immediately makes me think, "too much work to read all that." Try to keep it to a single info-graphic link per comment(maybe two).
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday January 12 2020, @04:06PM (1 child)
I will take it into consideration. You say I share more ideas than you expect? That it jolts you out of a stupor in the morning, with a 'waking up' effect?
Music to my ears. I ere on the side of the meme, saying too much meme, faster rather than wait and see. It is part of this project because there is a clock on this. It's like the nutjob trend I was watching my entire life became real. Biff from Back to the Future did take over.
You can of course re-produce the meme to suit yourself and re-transmit, it is totally allowed and that is the spirit. Might want to beware of that, some younguns might say any complaint about a meme is like, 'why didnt you fix it yourself boomer, dont you have photoshop on your windows vista tower?'
What if I told you this very morning I spent at least half an hour tweaking some text so it was more readable, im working on it.
Hmm where is the new hotness and what context is this? oh here we go:
https://archive.is/Rdbj9 [archive.is]
https://archive.is/xPOYX [archive.is]
I think those fit your spec. Enjoy and as always share rapidly. I get banned everywhere because the overton window has shrunk so small I can't even find it. Well why not one more.
https://archive.is/2dt6H [archive.is]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13 2020, @06:56AM
Perhaps I could have been clearer in referring to the audience. What I meant was, try to understand your audience has limited attention spans. They're less likely to click on more images if it takes too much effort to read them. The new examples are definitely easier to read, especially with regard to legibility.
As for the permissions to copy and modify the images, consider putting a license notification in a corner so people can know that. There are lots of options out there, but Creative Commons [creativecommons.org] is a popular choice. No permissions or rights can be assumed if there is no notice at all.