A lawsuit is claiming that Disney has been illegally collecting data from children: the mouse house and three other companies allegedly developed 42 youth-aimed apps that would track users’ online activity, and that data would be sold to advertisers without consent of the parents. Naturally, this is a violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA), a 1999 law that requires parental consent before apps aimed at children under the age of 13 can collect personal data.



When Amanda Rushing downloaded the mobile game “Disney Princess Palace Pets” for her child L.L., she didn’t know that personal information linked to L.L. would be collected and used to market to L.L. elsewhere online. And the app never asked the San Francisco mom for her permission to do so, as required by federal law because L.L. was under 13 at the time. That’s the allegation in a new lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California this week by the law firms Lieff Cabraser and Carney Bates & Pulliam.

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