Breitbart:
A San Francisco mother has filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming that their “Princess Palace Pets” app was used to illegally track her daughter.
On Thursday, Amanda Rushing filed a proposed class action against The Walt Disney Company, as well as Disney Electronic Content. Rushing alleges that advertising software hidden within the “Princess Palace Pets” toy companion mobile application collects personal information, and tracks online behavior.
Michael Sobol, Rushing’s attorney, said in the official complaint:
App developers and their SDK-providing partners can track children’s behavior while they play online games with their mobile devices by obtaining critical pieces of data from the mobile devices, including ‘persistent identifiers,’ typically a unique number linked to a specific mobile device.
These persistent identifiers allow SDK providers to detect a child’s activity across multiple apps and platforms on the internet, and across different devices, effectively providing a full chronology of the child’s actions across devices and apps. This information is then sold to various third-parties who sell targeted online advertising.
Sobol maintains that this is a clear violation of COPPA, which protects children from any company collecting information on a child under the age of 13 without concrete verification of consent by their parent or guardian. more
What the hell ever happened to ethics???
Disney’s Got some Explaining to do, And it Won’t be easy. They Lose unless they Stop Tracking Kids Period Now…Theyv’e Been Exposed !!!
Disney Won’t Care About the Monetary on the Suit, It’s The Disney Reputation and Saving Themselves From a Dreadful Public Opinion !
Well that was goofy of them.
did they try to slip her a micky too?
oops. Its m.i.c.k.E.y. mouse. One would think i would have known that
Include the stoopid parents who buy the kids that shit with the software to track the kids.
My kid get’s none of that. She does play Roblox online, but it protects kids from adults.
A plain brown van with Mickey ears rolls down a neighborhood cul de sac. “Hey kiddies, who wants hard candy?!”
Disney will probably claim the consent is in the EULA, therefore they did no wrong when the *parent* accepted the EULA when installing the app.
Except that the *parent* probably is the kid doing it themselves, but that’s the *parent* fault for not restricting the kid from installing apps.
Or sumting like that… according to Disney’s lawyers.
Got kids? Look at the cookies they load up on your computer when you click on any of their products.