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Critics say the bills will make the internet less safe for kids by increasing digital surveillance and reducing access to encrypted services.
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KOSA is just one of several pieces of children’s safety legislation that has received growing attention from civil society groups.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office estimated that the app allowed up to 1.4 million UK children under 13 use the platform in 2020.
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President Biden will call for stronger privacy protections and increased algorithmic transparency from tech companies in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, repeating his message from last year’s address about the need to strengthen privacy rights. “There should be clear and strict limits on the ability to collect, use, transfer, and maintain our […]
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Epic will adopt privacy settings for kids and teens that turn off voice and text communications by default.
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Researchers have found some daycare apps share information such as the number of diaper changes with third-parties without disclosing it.
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Federal privacy legislation fails to gain momentum in the Senate.
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The crackdown comes as lawmakers look to update children’s privacy protections.
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The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department slapped a children’s weight loss app with a $1.5 million penalty and an order to delete data it collected on thousands of children under 13 allegedly without proper parental consent. The complaint from the FTC and DOJ alleges that Kurbo by WW (formerly known as Weight Watchers) failed to properly verify parental consent for users under 13 and made it easy for hundreds of users who identified as 13 or older during the signup process to then later change their age in the app. It also alleges the app didn’t properly notify parents who signed up on their children’s behalf about the extent of the data collected by the app. Both practices, the FTC said, violate a decades-old federal children’s privacy law for users under 13 known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). “Weight Watchers and Kurbo marketed weight management services for […]
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A group of children’s privacy advocates alleged in a recent FTC complaint that TikTok violated an agreement to protect children’s private data. Continue reading TikTok Violated Children’s Privacy Law, FTC Complaint Says