{"id":7652,"date":"2018-04-17T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2021-07-23T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:48:10","slug":"thousands-of-android-apps-are-violating-child-privacy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/thousands-of-android-apps-are-violating-child-privacy-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Android Apps Are Violating Child Privacy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Android apps are violating a law designed to protect the privacy of children using internet-connected devices, research from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) shows.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/petsymposium.org\/2018\/files\/papers\/issue3\/popets-2018-0021.pdf\">newly-published study<\/a>, a group of ICSI researchers found that most Android apps targeted at children under 13 likely violate the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), one of the U.S.\u2019s most stringent pieces of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-childrens-privacy-and-data-retention\/\">child privacy<\/a> legislation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBased on our automated analysis of 5,855 of the most popular free children\u2019s apps, we found that a majority are potentially in violation of COPPA, mainly due to their use of third-party SDKs,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cWhile many of these SDKs offer configuration options to respect COPPA by disabling tracking and behavioral advertising, our data suggest that a majority of apps either do not make use of these options or incorrectly propagate them across mediation SDKs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Researchers also noted that 92 percent of the 1,280 children\u2019s apps that used the Facebook API \u201cmay be using it for COPPA-prohibited activities, which is perhaps not surprising given Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/us-senators-introduce-privacy-bill-of-rights-in-wake-of-facebook-data-harvesting-scandal\/\">woeful track record<\/a> on data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers wrote that in many cases the COPPA violations were likely inadvertent, as certain third-party software development kits (SDKs) provide Android developers with the ability to disable tracking and behavioral advertising \u2014 which are prohibited under COPPA \u2014 but the apps did not have these configurations enabled<\/p>\n<p>However, in other cases, developers may have knowingly violated COPPA, likely due to the fact that tracking users and selling their data is lucrative, whether the users are children or not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWorse, we observed that 19% of children\u2019s apps collect identifiers or other personally identifiable information (PII) via SDKs whose terms of service outright prohibit their use in child-directed apps,\u201d the study said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Equally as alarming is that the study found that more than 200 of the Android apps examined in the study performed geolocation tracking on child users without requiring their parents to provide explicit opt-in consent.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Google has faced allegations that its products are violating COPPA. Earlier this month, approximately two dozen child advocacy groups filed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/09\/technology\/youtube-ftc-kids\/index.html\">complaint<\/a> against YouTube, alleging that the video streaming giant allows advertisers to target ads at children in violation of COPPA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image from Pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Android apps are violating a law designed to protect the privacy of children using internet-connected devices, research from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) shows. 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