Summary
Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as 7 - and to sell that information.
Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send that data back to the company. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.See the full content of this document
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Software Collects Data From Kids' Online Chats
"This scares me more than anything I have seen using monitoring technology," said Parry Aftab, a child-safety advocate.
The software does not record children's names, addresses or other identifiable information, but it knows how old they are because parents customi...See the full content of this document
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