Can apps play by COPPA’s rules?

Increasingly, children are accessing mobile applications via cell phones and tablets at younger ages. Recent Pew Internet studies find that 68% of children aged 12-13 own a cell phone and 71% access the Internet via a mobile device (phone, tablet, or other mobile device). Within this age group, 66% report downloading a mobile app. These…

Child protection study underway

Vicki Nash and I were successful in our bid to the Fell Fund to examine how risk and harm are used in literature addressing children’s use of the Internet. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, a recent graduate of Loughborough University, joined us in December and has been making swift progress through the mountain of relevant literature. To date, we…