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Released: December 11, 2012
FTC looks at mobile apps over child privacy concerns
Source: Cecilia Kang, Washington Post (Free Registration)
Hundreds of popular smartphone and tablet apps aimed at children are collecting personal data and sharing it without informing parents, a new federal study said Monday.
Developers of these software programs offered misleading privacy policies or buried their practices in fine print, the Federal Trade Commission found after testing 400 leading apps sold in the mobile stores run by Apple and Google.
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