Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said he was open to a proposal to give children a way to delete personal information that they post on Facebook or other online sites. Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, have introduced legislation that would require online firms to give children and their parents a way, when technologically feasible, to erase publicly available information online and would limit companies from collecting personal information about kids 15 and younger.
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