TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 11, 2019

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has joined a bipartisan coalition of 24 state attorneys general in asking the Federal Trade Commission to strengthen its rules prohibiting websites, mobile applications and other digital marketing companies from collecting personal information from children under 13, and using that information to track children. The group is asking the agency to expand the definition of personal information to include faceprints used to unlock cellphones, health data from smart watches and genetic information, and pursue companies that embed code in children’s mobile applications that can track behavioral habits.