Researchers from the International Computer Science
Institute have made shocking revelations that more than half of the
child-directed android apps potentially violate the US law and the Children’s
online privacy protection act (Coppa) on how data are been collected, shared
and used by the under 13. Most of these apps collect and share contact
information of the children without obtaining consent or applying reasonable
security measures. The app developers blatantly ignore their contractual
obligation to protect children’s privacy on their platforms. Government
regulators are to blame for the poor enforcement.
For years, the
FTC has failed to address how both Google and Facebook routinely undermine
consumer privacy — Jeffrey Chester
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/child-apps-games-android-us-google-play-store-data-sharing-law-privacy.
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