Publication date: 28 February 2026
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a statement this week allowing social media companies to collect children’s personal data without parental consent in the name of age verification, carving out an exception to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA), which decisively names children under 13 as untouchable for data collection, until now. Considering that COPPA was designed to protect sensitive data, the FTC is all but giving social media companies carte blanche to collect any information it deems necessary in the name of age verification.
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墨爾本大學計算機研究員夏南·科尼（Shaanan Cohney）指出，Seedance開發者很可能意識到使用西方智慧財產權可能涉及版權爭議，卻仍選擇冒險。
She gives the example of a previous client where one co-CEO worked more closely with the marketing and product departments, and the other mainly with finance, government regulatory bodies and legal.