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Can babies learn to count by using a mobile app? How about learn the alphabet?
According to The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, mobile apps for toddlers from Fisher-Price and Open Secrets are duping parents into thinking the apps are educational. On Wednesday, the Boston-based advocacy group filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission charging that the two companies have been falsely marketing their popular apps without definitive scientific proof.
Fisher-Price's Laugh & Learn apps were downloaded nearly 3 million times in 2012.
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