- New Bill Would Ban Behavioral Targeting Of Minors
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Kathy Castor, would prohibit companies that appeal to users under 18 from serving ads ...
- CARU Updates Kids' Ad Guidelines To Address Growth Of Online Platforms, New Immersive Media
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Children's Advertising Review Unit has updated its children's ad guidelines to address "growth in online platforms and new immersive forms of child-directed interactive media during the past
decade." ...
- Facebook To Prohibit Companies From Serving Behaviorally Targeted Ads To Minors
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Facebook plans to prohibit advertisers from targeting ads to users under 18 based on their activity on websites and apps, as well as their expressed interests. Instead, the company wi ...
- Vaccine Critics Seek To Revive Free Speech Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 23, 2021
Children's Health Defense, an organization founded by vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is aiming to revive a lawsuit claiming its free speech rights were violated when its posts we ...
- Deloitte, Mastercard Predict Heavy Spending On Back-To-School
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Monday, July 12, 2021
"We've entered a new era of schooling where traditional back-to-school supplies are fading in favor of tech," according to Deloitte report. ...
- Judge Dismisses Children's Privacy Claims Against YouTube, Leaves Door Open For Suit By Teens
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, July 3, 2021
A federal judge has again dismissed claims that YouTube, Hasbro, Cartoon Network and other companies violated children's privacy by allegedly tracking them in order to serve them with targeted ...
- New Kids' FAST Promises Worry-Free Environment For Parents, Advertisers
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Sensical, from the for-profit arm of Common Sense Media, says its experts review every video and ad, as well as classify and organize all content by three age brackets. ...
- Advocates Petition Facebook To Axe Plan To Create Instagram For Kids
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
More than 180,000 people have signed petitions urging Facebook to abandon plans to launch a children's version of Instagram, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other watchdogs that organiz ...
- Lawmakers Step Up Pressure On Facebook To Scrap Instagram For Kids
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 18, 2021
"When it comes to putting people before profits, Facebook has forfeited the benefit of the doubt," stated group including Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). ...
- Bipartisan Bill Would Require Opt-In Consent To Track Teens Under 16
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 11, 2021
A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday would restrict online companies' ability to use behavioral targeting techniques on users younger than 16. ...
- Advocates Call For New Curbs On Junk-Food Marketing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
The U.S. "has continued to rely on an outdated self-regulatory model that does not take into account the full spectrum of Big Data and AdTech practices in today's contemporary digit ...
- Attorneys General Urge Facebook To Drop Plans For Children's Instagram
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 10, 2021
"Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account," 44 attorne ...
- In The Battle To Create Social Media For Kids, Zigazoo Puts Safety First
Social Media Insider, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The design is specifically geared to how kids could use and benefit from the app. ...
- Amazon Must Face Children's Privacy Claims Over Voiceprint Collection
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, April 24, 2021
In a defeat for Amazon, a federal appellate court said Friday that the company must face a potential class-action suit in federal court over the alleged collection of children's voicepri ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Google's Marketing Of Children's Apps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 21, 2021
"The FTC must use its full authority to protect the interests of children, many of whom are increasingly online during the coronavirus pandemic," Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Kathy Cast ...
- GOP Floats New Curbs On Tech Companies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 16, 2021
Republican staff in the House suggest broadening the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, limiting Section 230 protections ...
- Facebook Urged To Cancel Plans For Children's Version Of Instagram
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 15, 2021
"Facebook's long track record of exploiting young people and putting them at risk makes the company particularly unsuitable as the custodian of a photo sharing and social messaging site f ...
- Kids' Advertising Game-Changer: App Data-Collection Settlements Finalized
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Collectively, the settlements span "tens of thousands" of child-directed gaming apps and implement "holistic protections" against personal data collection and behaviorally targeted ads for kids under
13. ...
- Google Play Apps Still Unlawfully Collect Children's Data, Advocates Tell FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Google continues to mislead parents by representing that apps on the Play Store intended for young children under the age of 13 comply with a federal law regarding children's privac ...
- Fisher-Price Sees Possibilities In Hoses, Ironing Boards
MAD, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The "See Toys Everywhere" creative, developed with Wieden+Kennedy, is a reminder that toys are in the eye of the beholder. ...
- Already Diverse And Inclusive, 'Sesame Street' Names Exec To Make Sure
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, March 18, 2021
"Sesame Street" is making every effort to ensure that the Muppets don't offend anyone. ...
- Twitter Slowed By Russian Authorities For Banned Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 11, 2021
Russian authorities Wednesday said they slowed the speed of users' uploading of photos and videos to Twitter in the country because the company failed to remove banned content. ...
- New Mexico AG Urges Appellate Court To Revive Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
"Google collects all sorts of information about students' online habits which it then uses to build profiles on individual students, and it does so without providing notice or obtaining conse ...
- FueledLoop Acquires 'Pregnancy & Newborn' Magazine, Builds On Its Maternity Market
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
The title joins a range of products for new mothers at FueledLoop parent Aeroflow Healthcare. ...
- Lawmakers Seek FTC Probe Of Online Math Game Over Marketing Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 26, 2021
The FTC should investigate whether Prodigy Education wrongly touts its online math game as free, Sen. Markey and Rep. Castor said Friday. ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Prodigy Math Game Over Alleged 'Bait-And-Switch' Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Prodigy Education dupes people by representing that its popular online math game is free, but bombarding young users with ads for a paid version that costs up to $107 ...
- Judge Throws Out Children's Privacy Claims Against YouTube, Channel Operators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed claims that YouTube, Hasbro, the Cartoon Network and other companies violated children's privacy by allegedly tracking them in order to serve them with targeted ...
- FTC Launches Broad Online Privacy Investigation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 14, 2020
The FTC on Monday launched an investigation into "dangerously opaque" online pratices by demanding detailed information from Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube and others about how they gather data about consume ...
- New Mexico Wants Appeals Court To Revive Privacy Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
New Mexico's top law enforcement official has appealed a trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit claiming the company violated students' privacy rights with its educational apps. ...
- Toyota Brings Back Feel-Good Drawing Contest
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The world contest was on hold this year due to COVID-19, but the U.S. portion, Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest, opens Nov. 16. ...
