PRIVO
| Private | |
| Industry | Youth Registration & Parental Consent |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | McLean, Virginia, US |
| Website | www |
PRIVO is a safe harbor and identity and consent service provider based in McLean, Virginia, US. PRIVO enables websites, apps, games and other online services to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) when they interact with and market to young children. It has been Federal Trade Commission approved.
PRIVO was co-founded in 2001 by Denise and Ken Tayloe, siblings and descendants of The Tayloe family of Richmond County. PRIVO was founded in Northern Virginia, the suburbs of Washington, DC. The focus of the company is to enable online services (including websites, mobile apps and third part service providers handling children's data) to comply with the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that is enforced by the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.
In April 2004, the FTC requested public comments in response to PRIVO’s application for FTC Safe Harbor Provider Status. Commenters included UCLA’s Center for Communication Policy, privacy expert Ray Everett Church and the Association for Schwab Learning.
In March 2007, the Progress and Freedom Foundation released "Progress on Point" in which PRIVO was asked to be a contributor regarding the topic‘Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions’] In January 2008, PRIVO raised half of the $1.2 million in funding it targeted following a previously raised $2.5 million from angel investors.
In September 2009, Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, PRIVO and Wave Systems, announced support for the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government. These companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.
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