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More than 4.7 million under-16 social media accounts were deactivated, removed, or restricted in Australia within days of its minimum-age law, per the eSafety Commissioner's March 2026 compliance update, while separate UK research puts underage profile ownership at 40%.
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73% of the 200-plus popular children's apps and platforms Common Sense Media reviewed for its 2023 State of Kids' Privacy report monetize personal data in some way. See what surveys from Pew, Aura, and FOSI say about how rarely parents actually read or check the policy behind it.
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An AI chatbot built on a third party LLM API creates disclosure obligations a standard privacy policy doesn't cover: training data use, chat log retention, and what the model vendor does with every message.
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More than 300,000 Californians signed up for the state's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform in its first five months, according to the California Privacy Protection Agency's June 2026 update, the most complete state-published consumer rights request count anywhere in the country. See how it compares to complaint growth, data broker registrations, and what other states do and do not publish.
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The right to erasure isn't unconditional. Here's what GDPR Article 17 actually requires you to delete, the statutory exceptions that override it, and how backups and logs fit in.
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57% of child-directed apps analyzed by UC Berkeley's ICSI potentially violate COPPA through undisclosed data sharing, and Human Rights Watch found 196 ad-tech companies embedded in government-endorsed kids' ed-tech in 2022. Here is the 2026 picture of how many apps illegally track children, sourced from academic research, watchdog audits, and FTC enforcement data.
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