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Privacy commish says children’s websites short on safeguards

Briefs | 09/02/2015 3:16 pm EDT

A majority of websites and mobile applications targeted to or popular with children were found recently to collect personal information from minors and share it with third parties, the Office of the Privacy Commission said Wednesday. 

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