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The House of Mouse is facing a class action lawsuit from a mom in San Francisco. Filed in California courts last Thursday, the suit claims that Disney is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Apparently without parental consent, Disney is collecting "persistent identifiers" through its SDK and tracking the child's activities across multiple apps and devices with the information being sold to third-parties going against COPPA's safeguards which is suppose to protect children.
The company had been penalized previously for $3 million in violation of COPPA with its Disney Playdom Division after registering 1.2 million users, mostly kids and collecting full names along with identifying information. Time to uninstall all those Frozen apps, but it will be hard to let-it-go -- pun fully intended.
The class-action suit targets Disney and three other software companies -- Upsight, Unity and Kochava -- alleging that the mobile apps they built together violate the law by gathering insights about app users across the Internet, including those under the age of 13, in ways that facilitate "commercial exploitation."
The company had been penalized previously for $3 million in violation of COPPA with its Disney Playdom Division after registering 1.2 million users, mostly kids and collecting full names along with identifying information. Time to uninstall all those Frozen apps, but it will be hard to let-it-go -- pun fully intended.
The class-action suit targets Disney and three other software companies -- Upsight, Unity and Kochava -- alleging that the mobile apps they built together violate the law by gathering insights about app users across the Internet, including those under the age of 13, in ways that facilitate "commercial exploitation."