Children and smartphones

For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...

$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...

For many children, smartphones are a gateway to greater independence and a more fulfilling social life. But smartphones can also open up a child’s life to the intrusive tracking, profiling and targeting ...