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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/technology/many-mobile-apps-for-children-fall-short-on-disclosure-to-parents-ftc-report-says.html?hp
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  1. telecommunication
    (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a division of the Commerce Department, has been overseeing a group of advocacy and industry groups that are trying to work out a code of conduct for transparency in mobile app data pra
  2. profiling
    recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
    Children’s advocates have argued that such detailed profiling could potentially present a safety hazard — like the ability for strangers to contact or locate a child — as well as a risk that children could be unfairly discriminated against or influ
  3. regulator
    a device for controlling flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
    Regulators said they were starting “numerous nonpublic investigations” to determine whether the discrepancies between the children’s apps’ disclosures and their actual practices violated the law.
  4. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
    Only 20 percent of children’s apps provided disclosures about their data collection practices, according to a staff report from the Federal Trade Commission released on Monday.
  5. compile
    get or gather together
    The agency has proposed, for example, a longer list of data about children that would require prior parental consent to collect: photos, voice recordings and unique mobile device serial numbers that could be used to track children and compile infor
  6. ecosystem
    organisms interacting with their physical environment
    This is the second F.T.C. study on the children’s app ecosystem this year.
  7. visibility
    quality or degree of being able to be seen
    “Despite many high-visibility efforts to increase transparency in the mobile marketplace, little or no progress has been made,” the report said.
  8. delta
    the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
    Last week Ms. Harris sued Delta Air Lines for not warning users of its Fly Delta app that the app collected sensitive information like a user’s full name, phone number, e-mail address, photographs and location.
  9. virtual
    being actually such in almost every respect
    The researchers also reported that most apps failed to tell parents when they involved interactive features like advertising, social network sharing or allowing children to make purchases for virtual goods within the app.
  10. facial
    of or concerning the front of the head
    The agency hopes to update them to keep up with developments in mobile apps, voice recognition, facial recognition and comprehensive online data collection by marketers.
  11. interactive
    capable of influencing each other
    The researchers also reported that most apps failed to tell parents when they involved interactive features like advertising, social network sharing or allowing children to make purchases for virtual goods within the app.
  12. e-mail
    (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
    Last week Ms. Harris sued Delta Air Lines for not warning users of its Fly Delta app that the app collected sensitive information like a user’s full name, phone number, e-mail address, photographs and location.
  13. technical
    of or relating to aptitude in a practical skill
    The apps that did offer disclosures often provided links to long, dense, technical privacy policies “filled with irrelevant information,” according to the report.
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