Loads of Companies Are Violating Children's Privacy

Requesting more time to comply

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Children’s privacy is so sensitive that all it took for kids game Mobbles to pre-emptively pull its app last December was a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission by a privacy group. Four months later, the app, which had been accused of collecting email addresses without parental permission, has yet to return.

Mobbles’ disappearance could have something to do with the FTC’s comprehensive overhaul of privacy rules affecting digital companies targeting kids, which will go into effect July 1.

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