Yelp settles FTC charges of violating child privacy

  • 17 September 2014
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By John Ribeiro  Posted on 9/17/2014
 
Yelp has agreed to pay $450,000 to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that the company accepted registrations to its services from children under 13 through its apps.
 
The FTC had earlier on Tuesday brought a complaint against the service that connects people with local businesses, stating that it had violated a number of rules, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
 
Before 2009, users could only register through the website, where Yelp had a screening mechanism to prohibit users under the age of 13 from registering. In 2009, Yelp, however, introduced a registration feature in its app, allowing users to register for new accounts through the application, but failed to implement a working age-screen mechanism in the new in-app registration feature, according to the FTC complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
 
ComputerWorld/ full article here/ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2684792/yelp-settles-ftc-charges-of-violating-child-privacy.html
 

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