Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Also called: COPPA
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 5: Securing Applications and Data
A United States law from 1998 that protects the personal information of children under 13 collected by websites and online services.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 5.2.A.4
Why it matters in Unit 5
PII about children under 13 is regulated data with extra rules.
Example
A game for young children needs a parent’s consent before collecting a child’s name or email address.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 5.2 Protecting Applications and Data: Managerial Controls and Access ControlsGo deeper: the professional references
Security professionals worldwide use these: the NIST glossary (the U.S. government's official security dictionary), MITRE ATT&CK (real attacker techniques), MITRE CWE (software weaknesses) and the internet's own standards (RFCs). They go beyond the AP® course, so use the definition above for the exam.