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….

By the time a child reaches 13, online advertising firms hold an average of 72 million data points about them, according to SuperAwesome, a London-based company that helps app developers navigate child-privacy laws.

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Fowler, G. A. (2022, June 9). Your kids’ apps are spying on them. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/09/apps-kids-privacy/