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The children privacy protection aims to enable parents or guardians to be in control of their children’s privacy by specifying their privacy preferences for a toy, under the assumption that the toy has published an accurate privacy policy and complies with it in a privacy protection engine attached to the toy.
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Referring to the direction of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 1998), and the European Union Data Protection Directive (EUDPD), a child is an individual under the age of 13 years old (Hung 2015). Children privacy protection aims to protect children’s personal information, which is particularly sensitive, especially when associated with their real identity. Children provide a unique user base which requires special attention in several key areas related to their privacy (Hung et al. 2016). In general, children do not understand the...
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COPPA: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, United States Federal Trade Commission. [Online]. Available http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm (1998)
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Hung, P.C.K., Fantinato, M., Roa, J. (2018). Children Privacy Protection. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_198-1
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