The FTC's consumer alert advises parents to "read the privacy policy" and "know that consent is not all-or-nothing" when dealing with children's apps and websites. How does this affect the current state of parental protection?

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The FTC's consumer alert advises parents to "read the privacy policy" and "know that consent is not all-or-nothing" when dealing with children's apps and websites. How does this affect the current state of parental protection?

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The FTC's advice to parents places enormous burden on individual parents to understand complex privacy policies, navigate consent options, and monitor corporate compliance with children's privacy laws. Parents must become privacy experts to protect their children online. Most parents lack the time, expertise, or resources to effectively monitor corporate data collection practices across all digital services their children use—COPPA violations numbered over 250 Disney channels collecting data on children under 13 without parental consent.

The FTC's consumer alert advises parents to "read the privacy policy" and "know that consent is not all-or-nothing" when dealing with children's apps and websites. How does this affect the current state of parental protection?

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