The Better Business Bureau Children's Advertising Review Unit has found that a Harper Collins website did not comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), MediaPost reports. “The Ruby Redfort site, touting a book series that features a 13-year-old girl detective, didn't have procedures in place to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting names, street addresses and e-mail addresses from children,” the report states, noting COPPA prohibits websites from “knowingly collecting” such data from children under the age of 13. Meanwhile, The Washington Post and Forbes report on the emergence of anonymous apps and social networking sites filling “a growing demand among teens for more fun, less accountability and more privacy online.”
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