NDLI: Can apps play by the COPPA Rules?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Liccardi, I. Bulger, M. Abelson, H. Weitzner, D.J. Mackay, W.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, Orsay, France (Mackay, W.) \|\| Oxford Internet Inst., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK (Bulger, M.) \|\| Comput. Sci. & Artificial Intell. Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA (Liccardi, I.; Abelson, H.; Weitzner, D.J.)
Abstract	We review current technical and social barriers to COPPA compliance for popular online services aimed at children. We show that complying with COPPA has proven difficult for developers, even when a genuine attempt was made. We investigate reasons for this lack of compliance and identify common causes: specifically, difficulties obtaining verifiable parental control as well as supply mechanisms for parents to understand, review, grant access and monitor collection of their children's personal data. Unless part of online services, mobile apps do not need to comply with COPPA. We identify 38,842 (out of 635,264) apps which are self-described (by their developers) as suitable for young users. Half of these apps have the ability to collect personal data and only 6% present a privacy policy. Parents often have little to no knowledge or understanding of what data is accessed. Due to Android's design they must grant all access regardless of permission type or need. Among the self-described apps we find different levels of content rating; these are not a reflection of the content of the app itself but rather the required access to personal data. We present a design for a new framework aimed at helping mobile apps to comply with COPPA. This framework aims to simplify the process for developers by providing appropriate tools and mechanisms to help comply with the COPPA rules while presenting an easily understandable interface for parents to review, navigate, understand and then grant access to their children's personal data.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	9
File Size	1931069
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479935024
e-ISBN	9781479935031
DOI	10.1109/PST.2014.6890917
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-23
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	COPPA Privacy Google Data privacy mobile apps children Mobile communication Internet Advertising Monitoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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