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The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards.
The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit technology policy group, examined a random sample of 73 mobile applications used in 38 different schools across 14 US states and found 60 per cent were transmitting student data.
The apps in question send data using software development kits or SDKs, which consist of modular code libraries that can be used to implement utility functions, analytics, or advertising without the hassle of creating these capabilities from scratch. Examples include: Google’s AdMob, Firebase, and Sign-in SDKs, Square s OK HTTP and Okio SDKs, and Facebook s Bolts SDK, among others.
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In a unanimous ruling late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court slashed the Federal Trade Commission’s favored route to impose monetary penalties in consumer protection cases. Our Consumer Protection/FTC Team examines the decision, its immediate impact on enforcement actions, and Congress’s ability to step in to increase the FTC’s authority through legislation.
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Senator demands more scrutiny of YouTube s content for children Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) / Getty Images Santi Ruiz • April 28, 2021 1:55 pm
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) criticized YouTube for manipulating children and expressed concerns that one of President Joe Biden’s picks to lead the Federal Trade Commission won’t do enough to regulate social media companies. When [children] see one video and then they’re dished up another and another and another, and each is more exciting or sinister than the last one, then they just keep going down that path, Blackburn said in an exclusive interview with the
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