Understanding the updated COPPA rules and their impact on child safety
The next phase of youth privacy regulation in games is approaching quickly, with new COPPA rule amendments set to take effect on April 22,...
Standing watch on The Wall to protect young video game players | Pat Vance interview
Patricia E. Vance is one of those people who watches over society, protecting it from crazy things — not unlike the watchers on The...
Xsolla announces certified parental controls, a boom in Web Shop revenue and expansion in SE Asia
Presented by Xsolla During the latest GamesBeat Live session, Dean Takahashi, lead writer for GamesBeat, sat down with Berkley Egenes, chief marketing and growth...
U.S. Senate passes two kids safety bills for tech and games platforms
The United States Senate has passed two bills that could have major impacts on how large tech platforms, including games, treat minors under 16....
Epic’s Superawesome lets game devs set up free parental verification for child gamers
Epic Games and SuperAwesome will make it easy for all game developers to implement free parent verification in their video games. That may sound...
App publishers: Here’s a way to minimize ad revenue loss from GDPR
The mobile apps industry, especially companies based in the EU, have watched General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) draw closer over the last two years....
NY attorney general: Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro, and more violated online children’s protection act
My Little Pony’s motto is “friendship is magic.” In the real world, however, that motto translates to something like “private user data is money.”...
SuperAwesome and Poki aim to target online U.S. family gamers with kid-safe ads
U.K.-based startup SuperAwesome and the Poki online games playground have teamed up to create kid-safe AwesomeAds to family gamers in the U.S. London-based SuperAwesome has...
SuperAwesome partners with Bee7 for a kid-safe, legal mobile games ad network
Two companies say their ad platform complies with COPPA law in the U.S.
Your 2015 goal: Understanding how COPPA could ruin your day
You may not start a new fitness routine this year, but you should understand the risks that COPPA poses to your app business.