Monarch Services, Inc., Girls Life, Inc. & Looksmart Ltd.
October 4, 2001
$100,000

The companies are required to comply with COPPA in connection with any future online collection of personally identifying information from children under 13. The settlement also requires the operators to delete all personally identifying information collected from children online at any time since the Rule's effective date. These cases mark the first civil penalty cases the FTC has brought under the COPPA Rule.

Lisa Frank, Inc.
October 4, 2001
$30,000

American Pop Corn Company 
February 14, 2002
$10,000

Ohio Art Company (Etch-a-Sketch)
April 22, 2002
$35,000

The Ohio Art Company was found collecting personal information from children registering for "Etchy's Birthday Club." The site collected the names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, age, and date of birth from children who wanted to qualify to win an Etch-A-Sketch toy on their birthday without parent permission.

Mrs. Fields Cookies
February 22, 2003
$100,000

Portions' of Mrs. Fields web sites were directed to children. The company allegedly collected personal information from more than 84,000 children, without first obtaining parental consent.

Hershey
February 22, 2003
$85,000

Hershey operates more than 30 Web sites - many of which are candy-related sites directed to children. On a number of these sites, the company allegedly employed a method of obtaining parental consent that does not meet the standard delineated under the COPPA Rule.

UMG Recordings, Inc.
February 18, 2004
$400,000

UMG Recordings operates hundreds of general audience Web sites that advertise and promote its music and artists, many of whom are popular with children.

UMG gained actual knowledge that a child was registering on the site whenever a child entered a birth date indicating he was under the age of 13. Yet, UMG collected this personal information from children without first notifying parents and obtaining verifiable parental consent.

Bonzi Software
February 18, 2004
$75,000

Xanga
September 7, 2006
$1,000,000

Xanga is a social networking site that collected, used and disclosed information from children under 13. This is the first million-dollar penalty since COPPA was enacted.

Industrious Kid, Inc.
January 30, 2008
$130,000

The web site in the violation was advertised as a “free, secure, social networking and blogging destination specifically designed for kids ages 8 to 14.” however collected and maintained personal information from children under the age of 13 without first notifying parents and obtaining their consent.

 Sony BMG Music
December 11, 2008
$1,000,000

The Commission’s complaint alleges that, through its music fan Web sites, Sony Music improperly collected, maintained and disclosed personal information from thousands of children under the age of 13, without their parents’ consent.

Iconix Brand Group
$250,000
October 20, 2009

Tiny Co
September 17, 2014
$300,000

Tiny Co runs many games and applications including Tiny Pets, Tiny Zoo, Tiny Village, Tiny Monsters and more. In exchange for in-app currency to buy game enhancements, TinyCo encouraged kids to turn over their email addresses, but the company didn't get parental permission as required by COPPA.

Yelp
September 17, 2014
$450,000

The lawsuit also alleged that Yelp didn’t adequately test its apps to ensure that users under the age of 13 were prohibited from registering.

InMobi
June 22, 2016
$950,000

The FTC charged the company for deceptively tracking the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers – including children – without their knowledge or consent to serve them geo-targeted advertising.

Operation Child Tracker
September 13, 2016

Operation Child Tracker was a two-year investigation by the Attorney General’s office, discovered that websites operated by Mattel, Viacom, Hasbro and Jumpstart were home to tracking technology that illegally enabled third-party vendors, such as marketers or advertising companies, to track children’s online activity in violation of COPPA.

Mattel
$250,000

Viacom
$500,000

Hasbro
No fine

Jumpstart
$85,000