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Question 31

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Matt went into his son’s bedroom one evening and found him stretched out on his bed typing on his laptop.

“Doing your homework?” Matt asked hopefully.

“No,” the boy said. “I’m filling out a survey.”

Matt looked over his son’s shoulder at his computer screen. “What kind of survey?”

“It’s asking questions about my opinions.”

“Let me see,” Matt said, and began reading the list of questions that his son had already answered. “It’s asking your opinions about the government and citizenship. That’s a little odd. You’re only ten.”

Matt wondered how the web link to the survey had ended up in his son’s email inbox. Thinking the message might have been sent to his son by mistake he opened it and read it. It had come from an entity called the Leadership Project, and the content and the graphics indicated that it was intended for children. As Matt read further he learned that kids who took the survey were automatically registered in a contest to win the first book in a series about famous leaders.

To Matt, this clearly seemed like a marketing ploy to solicit goods and services to children. He asked his son if he had been prompted to give information about himself in order to take the survey. His son told him he had been asked to give his name, address, telephone number, and date of birth, and to answer questions about his favorite games and toys.

Matt was concerned. He doubted if it was legal for the marketer to collect information from his son in the way that it was. Then he noticed several other commercial emails from marketers advertising products for children in his son’s inbox, and he decided it was time to report the incident to the proper authorities.

Based on the incident, the FTC’s enforcement actions against the marketer would most likely include what violation?

    Correct Answer: B

    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which restricts the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 without explicit parental consent. In this scenario, information such as the child's name, address, telephone number, and date of birth was collected without obtaining parental consent. Therefore, the most likely violation here is the collection of information from a child under the age of thirteen.

Discussion
impchoiOption: B

B is correct.

BhimeshOption: D

Should be D. Disregarding the privacy policy of the children’s marketing industry.

examdj101jOption: D

Collecting information from a child under 13 is not a violation, The violation would be failure to obtain parent consent when collecting information from a child under 13. My choice is D.

jjjrbmOption: B

answer is B

smp175Option: B

Nothing in the prompt suggests that the marketer undertakes to comply with any self-regulatory policies. In contrast, based on the prompt there was clearly no parental consent. B due to a violation of COPPA is the answer.

Privaceeeeee9876Option: D

D: The question is asking about violations marketer. If the question were to ask about the FTC's enforcement actions in violation of COPPA then the answer would be B

Supp2023Option: D

B may be ok with parental consent. D, however may be the right answer here because the question is specifically asking based on the incident, the FTC’s enforcement actions against the marketer would most likely include what violation and D is the only best option here.