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FTC fines kids' app developer HyperBeard $150K for use of third-party ad trackers – TechCrunch:
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a settlement of $150,000 with HyperBeard, the developer of a collection of children's mobile games over violations of U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule). The company's applications had been downloaded more than 50 million times on a worldwide basis to date, according to data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
A complaint filed by the Dept. of Justice on behalf of the FTC alleged that HyperBeard had violated COPPA by allowing third-party ad networks to collect personal information in the form of persistent identifiers to track users of the company's child-directed apps. And it did so without notifying parents or obtaining verifiable parental consent, as is required. These ad networks then used the identifiers to target ads to children using HyperBeard's games.
[...] The FTC determined HyperBeard's apps were marketed toward children because they used brightly colored, animated characters like cats, dogs, bunnies, chicks, monkeys and other cartoon characters, and were described in child-friendly terms like "super cute" and "silly." The company also marketed its apps on a kids' entertainment website, YayOMG, published children's books and licensed other products, including stuffed animals and block construction sets, based on its app characters.
[...] In HyperBeard's settlement with the FTC, the company has agreed to pay a $150,000 fine and delete the personal information it illegally collected from children under the age of 13. The settlement had originally included a $4 million penalty, but the FTC suspended it over HyperBeard's inability to pay the full amount. But that larger amount will become due if the company or its CEO, Alexander Kozachenko, are ever found to have misrepresented their finances.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @05:15AM
More plagiarized articles posted by the SoylentNews "editors", even after they pledged not to do this. I still don't understand why ANYONE would pay for this worthless site. There's no original content, and most of the stories are copied word-for-word from news articles at a handful of other sites.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Sunday June 07 2020, @05:16AM (1 child)
Otherwise this is just more business-as-usual rich people protecting each other because the law only applies to the proles.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @08:43AM
/sarcasm
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @05:36AM (1 child)
See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?cid=937346&sid=35327 [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including proving you barb stalk me on THIS SITE https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] with more proof QUOTED FROM YOU DIRECTLY barbara (tom) hudson proving are a technical incompetent brain-damaged transsexual fool BULLSHIT ARTIST FUCKUP worthless creep that also failed on tech vs. me.
My post LITERALLY also shows links to stopping hundreds of threats of MANY KINDS via hosts (since 99% of malicious threats online use hostnames - block them as I do in hosts (less overhead vs. ANYTHING else by FAR & pure kernelmode TCP/IP stack efficient no less)? Can't TOUCH you nor you it. That's ONLY a 1 year only as a sample and I'd done TONS MORE many hundreds more at slashdot before that and yes 99% use hostnames so hosts work against them harming you). I am GOD'S GIFT to you rotten bastards. This SHITHOLE website is USELESS and runs on OBSOLETE code RIPPED OFF from /. & made EVEN WORSE by INCOMPETENT admins here.
So much for your usual lies barb and useless online troll chatterbox you has never done better work and I fairly challenged you to show you did. You have not.
You people need to STOP BULLYING ME & show RESPECT for your BETTERS. PROVE you've done better than I. You CAN'T & you KNOW it so you IMPERSONATE & STALK me instead. I'm so SICK & TIRED of FAKENAME FORUM FUCKS like YOU who are JEALOUS so you BULLY & IMPERSONATE little ol' me. I've done absolutely NOTHING wrong & YOU KNOW IT.
NOW: You RESORTING TO IMPERSONATING ME on your end only PROVES I really got to you barb/tom hudson tranny.
So much so you are reduced to showing us your true scum bag self in fact. Thought YOU were going to SUE me? LMAO for what? FACTS ABOUT YOU??? LOL!
* YOU WILL ALWAYS FAIL vs. me just as you FAILED @ being a MAN & since you couldn't GET ANY PUSSY you (lmao) DECIDED in your DRUG ADDLED BRAIN to SLICE OFF YOUR COCK & build your OWN pussy (only way you'd "get some", ever).... OMG!
Only thing that "looks like SHIT" is you you FUCKED UP abomination of desolation freak.
TO THE MORON technically WEAK whimp THAT OWNS THIS SITE: Do you REALLY *THINK* (beyond your abilities MORON vs. me) YOU CAN "HOLD ME OUT/DOWN"?
You've tried to for DAYS just as /. did ONLY TO HAVE ME FUCKING SHOW EVERYONE YOU ARE A POWERLESS FUCK vs. me (& believe me - IF I wanted to? I could DROP THIS SITE OFFLINE in minutes, but it is MORE FUN to expose YOU & this shitbag LYING scum TRANZOID barbara hudson, publicly - QUESTION: HOW DO SHITBAGS like you ALL live with yourselves?)
I am IMPOSING MY WILL on you fucker - enjoy.
APK
P.S.=> Hey FREAK? I'm going to PUBLICLY EMBARRASS YOUR ASS SO BAD on this site you will have to SLINK AROUND IN SHAME publicly but then, "your kind" (massive MASSIVE total losers in life) are USED to that, aren't you? You don't LIKE IT but I LOVE doing it, exposing you as the TRASH you are fucker... apk
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @06:13AM
No one cares.
Bugger off.