On Wednesday, Echometrix Inc. agreed to pay $100,000 to settle charges by New York state’s attorney general that it was selling data gleaned from its software that allows parents to monitor their children’s online activities.
The attorney general said Echometrix had violated state deceptive-practices and false-advertising laws. Echometrix, which did not admit or deny wrongdoing, also agreed to stop selling information gathered from children using its monitoring software. Echometrix did not immediately return a call for comment.
19 September 2010
mummy's little helper
From the Wall Street Journal in a discussion by Courtney Banks of the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), noting concerns about practice highlighted in my May 2010 conference paper on 'Electronic Nannies' -
