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December 10, 2012 11:59 pm GMT

FTC: Kids Apps Siphon An Alarming Amount Of Information. Time For Freak-Out Control

images (28)The FTC made national headlines today for a damning report on the state of privacy disclosures for kid-oriented mobile apps, warning that "kids' apps siphon an alarming amount of information." When I asked the FTC during a press conference to name a single example of where anyone had ever been harmed by one related to opaque data use, the response was, "kids received advertising."

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