Mexico:
New Mexico Attorney General Sues Technology Companies Over Children's Privacy Concerns
07 January 2019
by
Jeremy S. Close
,
Meredith Collier
,
David R. Coogan
,
Jennifer Everett
,
Robert Levent Hergüner
,
Richard Johnson
,
Laura Lim
,
Christopher Markham
,
Daniel McLoon
,
Mary Alexander Myers
,
Mauricio Paez
and
Nicole Perry
Jones Day
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On September 12, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas
filed a complaint in the District of New Mexico against technology
companies and application developers for alleging designing and
marketing applications that illegally track children in violation
of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The complaint
focuses on online game applications that access the geolocation,
demographics, and online activities of children without the
knowledge and consent of parents for the purpose of targeted
advertising.
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