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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Your kids’ apps are spying on them

Imagine if a stranger parked in front of a child’s bedroom window to peep inside. You’d call the police. Yet that happens every day online, and Big Tech looks the other way. 
 Apps are spying on our kids at a scale that should shock you. More than two-thirds of the 1,000 most popular iPhone apps likely to be used by children collect and send their personal information out to the advertising industry, according to a major new study shared with me by fraud and compliance software company Pixalate. On Android, 79 percent of popular kids apps do the same. 

 Angry Birds 2 snoops when kids use it. So do Candy Crush Saga and apps for coloring and doing math homework. They’re grabbing kids’ general locations and other identifying information and sending it to companies that can track their interests, predict what they might want to buy or even sell their information to others. 

Apple and Google run the app stores, so what are they doing about it? 

Enabling it... 

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 16, 2022 at 9:10 AM

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2010/04/22/lower-merion-school-district-explains-the-56000-webcamgate-shots/?sh=6a2bbd5b7e3f
    "It's a shame that the school was not this transparent about its spying policies from the very beginning."

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  2. AnonymousJune 16, 2022 at 9:10 AM

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2010/04/22/lower-merion-school-district-explains-the-56000-webcamgate-shots/?sh=6a2bbd5b7e3f
    "It's a shame that the school was not this transparent about its spying policies from the very beginning."

    ReplyDelete

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