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An estimated 32.1 million websites, roughly 8% of the internet's 401.6 million registered domains, are likely child-directed in 2026, based on Pixalate's measured COPPA app rate applied to Verisign's Q2 2026 Domain Name Industry Brief. See how the FTC legally defines a child-directed site and how many child-directed apps recent audits have actually found.
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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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97% of the most popular kids' tech and edtech products disclosed collecting personal data from users, according to Common Sense Media's 2021 State of Kids' Privacy report. See what types of data get collected most, how many apps do it illegally under COPPA, and where that data ends up.
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Ad SDKs, in-app purchases, and COPPA's rules for child-directed games all push a mobile game's privacy policy past what a generic app template covers. Here's what to include.
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99% of child-directed apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play fail to obtain verifiable parental consent, according to Pixalate's Q2 2025 report. See COPPA enforcement totals, kids' device ownership, and teen social media data for 2026.
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Why your website needs a privacy policy, what it should cover, and the international privacy laws you may need to comply with.
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