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Amazon Is Watching. The Internet giant is wiring homes… - 18 février 2021
The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods, and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation’s intelligence services. Are we sure we can trust it ?
When you think of Amazon, you might think of comparison shopping from your couch, buying exactly what you want, for less than you’d pay at the (...)
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Google and YouTube Will Pay Record $170 Million for Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Law - 5 septembre 2019
FTC, New York Attorney General allege YouTube channels collected kids’ personal information without parental consent
Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that the YouTube video sharing (...)
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Google paye une amende record pour ne pas avoir protégé les données d’enfants sur YouTube - 5 septembre 2019
YouTube a passé un accord avec l’agence de protection des consommateurs américains, dans lequel il reconnaît avoir collecté des données de jeunes utilisateurs sans le consentement de leurs parents.
La filiale de Google YouTube va payer 170 millions de dollars (environ 154 millions d’euros) d’amende aux Etats-Unis pour (...)
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YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy - 20 juin 2019
The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for allegedly violating children’s privacy, according to four people familiar with the matter, in a probe that threatens the company with a potential fine and already has prompted the tech giant to reevaluate some of its business practices. (...)
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Vie privée des enfants : pourquoi YouTube fait l’objet d’une enquête fédérale aux États-Unis - 20 juin 2019
YouTube fait l’objet d’une enquête du gouvernement américain à cause de la faible protection de ses jeunes utilisateurs mineurs. La plateforme devra régler le problème au plus vite.
YouTube va devoir agir, et vite. Une enquête du gouvernement fédéral américain est sur le point d’aboutir à son sujet. Elle concerne la (...)
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Privacy Experts, Senators Demand Investigation of Amazon’s Child Data Collection Practices - 9 mai 2019
Last year, a coalition of privacy advocates and child psychologists warned against putting an Amazon Alexa speaker anywhere near your child on the fairly reasonable grounds that developing minds shouldn’t befriend always-on surveillance devices, no matter how cute the packaging. Now, a group of privacy researchers, (...)
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Des applications accusées de ne pas suffisamment protéger les données des enfants - 19 avril 2018
La loi américaine encadre le traitement des données des mineurs de moins de 13 ans. Toutes les applications qui leur sont destinées ne respectent pourtant pas ce cadre.
Sept chercheurs en sciences de l’informatique d’universités américaines et canadiennes accusent des milliers d’applications Android destinées aux (...)
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Des applications accusées de ne pas suffisamment protéger les données des enfants - 18 avril 2018
La loi américaine encadre le traitement des données des mineurs de moins de 13 ans. Toutes les applications qui leur sont destinées ne respectent pourtant pas ce cadre.
Sept chercheurs en sciences de l’informatique d’universités américaines et canadiennes accusent des milliers d’applications Android destinées aux (...)
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Virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Echo break US child privacy law, experts say - 29 mai 2016
Storing voice recordings of people younger than 13 via Alexa, Google Home and Siri appears to flout the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
In a promotional video for Amazon’s Echo virtual assistant device, a young girl no older than 12 asks excitedly : "Is it for me ?" . The voice-controlled speaker can (...)
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Et si les enfants aussi avaient droit à une vie privée ? - 29 mai 2016
Les enfants sont les grands oubliés du combat pour la vie privée sur les réseaux. Pour les protéger, et se rassurer, on est prêt à avoir recours à des outils et des pratiques très limites.
Dans la bataille à venir pour la domination du marché des assistants virtuels domestiques, les enfants sont manifestement une cible (...)
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Protecting Data Privacy at School and at Play - 3 décembre 2014
Like many parents, Michelle Finneran Dennedy, who lives with her family in the Bay Area, likes to keep tabs on what her children and their friends are doing online.
She intervened, for instance, when she overheard a conversation in the back of her car between her daughter and a friend about Instagram, the (...)
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Facebook says states shouldn’t regulate online teen privacy. The FTC disagrees. - 22 mars 2014
The Federal Trade Commission says that Facebook is misinterpreting a key children’s privacy law, in a move that could weaken the social network’s argument in a California district court suit over teen privacy on the Web site.
The FTC filed the brief Thursday night, weighing in on a key point for the case, Batman v. (...)
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New Online Privacy Rules for Children - 20 décembre 2012
In a move intended to give parents greater control over data collected about their children online, federal regulators on Wednesday broadened longstanding privacy safeguards covering children’s mobile apps and Web sites. Members of the Federal Trade Commission said they updated the rules to keep pace with the (...)
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FTC Probing Children’s Mobile Apps for Privacy Breaches - 12 décembre 2012
The Obama administration said Monday it was investigating privacy issues around mobile applications for children based on concerns that some of the programs may engage in unauthorized collection and sharing of personal information.
The Federal Trade Commission made the announcement the same day it published a (...)
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Most children’s apps are failing on privacy, FTC finds - 12 décembre 2012
FTC investigating whether firms are in breach of existing laws and says little progress made on ensuring children are protected
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Etats-Unis : des applications mobiles pour enfants trop intrusives ? - 11 décembre 2012
La Commission fédérale du commerce (FTC) dévoile, dans une étude publiée lundi 10 décembre, que la plupart des applications destinées aux enfants partagent des informations comme l’identifiant de l’appareil, la localisation ou le numéro de téléphone sans l’accord des parents. Le régulateur lance d’ailleurs des investigations (...)
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McDonald’s removes networking features in some online games - 23 octobre 2012
McDonald’s said it has removed social networking features in some of its online games after a privacy advocacy group complained to federal regulators that the restaurant chain was violating child online privacy laws.
In a complaint filed last August to the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy (...)
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FTC Complaints Accuse McDonald’s, General Mills and Others of Collecting Kids’ Data - 23 août 2012
A coalition of advocacy groups filed complaints to the Federal Trade Commission claiming that a number of marketers’ websites are violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. But some of the accused marketers said that the coalition doesn’t understand the law.
The groups contend that the marketers are (...)
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FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions Aimed at Kids - 23 août 2012
Children’s health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through well-known companies’ online, viral advertising promotions.
At issue are the so-called "tell-a-friend" features embedded in child-focused advertising (...)
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Groups ask FTC to investigate McDonald’s, General Mills over kids’ privacy law - 22 août 2012
Several privacy and children’s advocacy groups have written to the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to investigate large companies such as McDonald’s and General Mills for using marketing techniques they say violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The letter also names Doctor’s (...)
