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Released: October 15, 2011
Inappropriate content making its way to mobile apps
Source: Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post
If gun-toting zombie killers, lewd language or busty women prowling for “hot guys” got on children’s TV shows, parents would run to the federal government’s indecency patrol in protest.
But such content is finding its way onto mobile applications aimed at children, who are spending more and more time tapping away on smartphones, iPods and other gadgets.
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