The FTC has provided new guidance on how it will enforce the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) against companies collecting voice recordings from children, loosening the rules on how companies can collect and use voice data. Under the guidance, online services covered by COPPA can now collect voice recordings from children without obtaining verifiable parental consent so long as they collect and use the voice recording solely as a replacement for written words, such as to perform a search or fulfill a verbal instruction or request, and maintain the file for only the brief period of time necessary for that purpose.

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