• On May 18, 2011, Sen. John "Jay" Rockefeller IV, Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent letters to Apple, Google, and the Association for Competitive Technology asking whether applications running on their mobile platforms comply with COPPA. The letters were sent the day before before his Committee held the hearing discussed above in FTC Developments. To view Sen. Rockefeller’s full statement about the letters, click here. To view Sen. Rockefeller’s opening remarks from the hearing, click here.