To help protect teens online, a federal law known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act was created. This is designed in such a way so as to protect a teen’s or a child’s personal information. This works in such a way that anyone would not be able to obtain a child’s or a teen’s personal information, without his parents agreeing to it and knowing about it.
Every website is asked by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to explain all their privacy policies on their sire itself and also to get the parent’s consent before using the teen’s private information.
5th national Cox teen summit was hosted by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Their subject this time was online safety issues. This summit took place in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday the 15th of July. This summit had got together many teens from all across the country. They discussed a lot of online safety issues. These issues included not only the potential long-term impact of social posts that are made on a teenager’s digital reputation, but also sexting, and cyber bullying.
This event saw the release of the results of Cox and NCMEC. The results were based on their annual survey that looked into the aspects of the online behavior of the teenagers and this also included the big changes and the trends of the last five years.
The discussion at this event was hosted by John Walsh, who is very popular in America as a children’s advocate. He was later joined by a guest panelist. This was the well-known James Andrews, who is famous for being a social media expert.



