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COPPA Compliance • Children’s Privacy • Data Protection

Protect Children’s Data. Strengthen COPPA Compliance.

BigID helps organizations protect children’s personal information and support COPPA compliance with data discovery, classification, access governance, retention controls, secure deletion, and audit-ready evidence.

Gain visibility into what children’s personal information your organization holds, where it lives, who can access it, how it is shared, why it is retained, and what needs action.

COPPA Operational Requirements

Turn children’s privacy obligations into measurable controls.

Support COPPA requirements with visibility into children’s personal information, parental notice and consent context, third-party disclosures, security safeguards, data minimization, retention, and secure deletion.

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Discover children’s data

Find personal information associated with children across cloud, SaaS, databases, applications, files, analytics platforms, and unstructured repositories.

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Classify protected information

Classify identifiers, contact information, persistent identifiers, geolocation, images, audio, biometrics, account data, and other sensitive information.

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Understand collection and use context

Connect children’s personal information to its source, system, owner, business purpose, policy, application, and available consent context.

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Govern access and sharing

Understand which users, applications, service accounts, vendors, and third parties can access or receive children’s personal information.

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Enforce minimization and retention

Identify unnecessary, duplicate, stale, or over-retained data and support policy-driven deletion when the original purpose no longer applies.

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Prove safeguards

Generate evidence for discovery, classification, access governance, retention, deletion, remediation, and children’s privacy control reviews.

Questions Children’s Privacy Teams Need Answered

COPPA compliance starts with knowing children’s data.

Privacy, legal, security, product, and governance teams need clear data context to minimize collection, control access and disclosure, enforce deletion, protect children’s personal information, and demonstrate compliance.

Where does children’s data live?
BigID discovers children’s personal information across cloud, SaaS, databases, applications, files, analytics environments, and unstructured repositories.
What personal information is collected?
BigID classifies identifiers, contact information, persistent identifiers, geolocation, images, audio, biometrics, account data, and other sensitive information.
Who can access or receive it?
BigID maps users, groups, applications, service accounts, vendors, and third parties with access to children’s personal information.
Which data is no longer necessary?
BigID identifies stale, duplicate, unused, over-retained, and potentially unnecessary personal information so teams can review it against its approved purpose and apply minimization or deletion policies.
Can we prove our safeguards?
BigID generates evidence for discovery, classification, access governance, retention, deletion, remediation, and compliance reporting.

BigID COPPA Capabilities

Discover, govern, and protect children’s personal information.

BigID helps privacy, legal, security, product, and governance teams find children’s personal information, understand its collection and use, control access and sharing, enforce retention and deletion, reduce exposure, and generate evidence for COPPA compliance.

COPPA Compliance Outcomes

Reduce children’s data risk. Prove privacy accountability.

BigID helps organizations protect children’s personal information by turning data visibility into governed access, reduced exposure, defensible retention, secure deletion, and compliance evidence.

Build a trusted data inventory

Know where children’s personal information lives across cloud, SaaS, applications, databases, files, analytics systems, and unstructured repositories.

Identify unnecessary data

Find personal information that may exceed its approved purpose, is no longer used, or has been retained longer than necessary so privacy teams can review and remediate it.

Control access and disclosure

Understand which people, applications, service accounts, vendors, and third parties can access or receive children’s data.

Enforce defensible retention

Find stale, duplicate, unnecessary, and over-retained information so teams can apply minimization and secure deletion policies.

Generate audit-ready evidence

Document discovery, classification, access governance, retention, deletion, safeguards, remediation, and compliance reporting.

FAQs

COPPA Compliance, Explained

Learn how BigID helps organizations discover children’s personal information, reduce exposure, enforce retention, and demonstrate COPPA controls.

What is COPPA compliance?
COPPA compliance means meeting federal requirements for collecting, using, disclosing, protecting, retaining, and deleting personal information collected online from children under 13.
Who does the COPPA Rule apply to?
The COPPA Rule applies to operators of websites and online services directed to children under 13 and to other operators that have actual knowledge that they collect personal information online from a child under 13.
How does BigID help with COPPA compliance?
BigID helps organizations discover children’s personal information, classify sensitive data, understand access and sharing, identify exposure, enforce retention and deletion, and generate compliance evidence.
Why is data discovery important for COPPA?
Data discovery helps organizations determine what children’s personal information they hold, where it is stored, why it was collected, who can access it, how it is shared, and whether it should be retained.
Can BigID help reduce children’s data exposure?
Yes. BigID helps identify excessive access, risky sharing, exposed personal information, third-party access, stale permissions, over-retention, and policy violations.
Can BigID support COPPA retention and deletion?
Yes. BigID helps identify data that is stale, duplicated, unnecessary, or retained beyond its approved purpose so teams can apply retention, minimization, and secure deletion policies.
How does BigID help prove COPPA accountability?
BigID generates evidence for data discovery, classification, access governance, retention, deletion, safeguards, remediation, and compliance reporting.

BigID for COPPA Compliance

Protect Children’s Data. Prove Privacy Control.

BigID helps organizations find and protect children’s personal information, govern access and sharing, enforce retention and secure deletion, reduce exposure, and demonstrate COPPA compliance.

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