Protecting Youths in an Online World

Citation
Federal Trade Commission, Protecting Youths in an Online World (July 15, 2010) (full-text).

Overview
This testimony first highlights some of the privacy and safety risks teens face as they participate in the digital world. Second, it summarizes the Commission's efforts to educate teens and their parents about these risks. Third, it highlights the Commission's efforts to protect privacy in the context of technologies used heavily by teens in particular &mdash; social networking, mobile computing, and peer-to-peer ("P2P") file-sharing programs. Finally, the testimony addresses proposals to create separate privacy protections for teens online.