The Federal Trade Commission recently announced an enforcement order against edtech company Edmodo for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Edmodo violated COPPA by collecting, using, and disclosing personal information from children without obtaining “verifiable parental consent,” and retaining the personal information collected for longer than

Ananth Iyengar
Ananth Iyengar counsels clients in the life sciences, technology, consumer products and telecommunications industries on a variety of privacy and data protection matters. Ananth’s work has included managing the design, strategy and implementation of global privacy programs at multinational organizations, as well as drafting privacy policies and procedures, privacy program governance structures, cross-border data transfer mechanisms and data breach response procedures.
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