Sony spies on children

[Z]

this week when the company's music division was fined for surreptitiously collecting information on children under 13-years old.

On Thursday, Sony agreed to pay $1 million to the Federal Trade Commission for collecting information on 30,000 children without obtaining parental consent. According to the Associated Press, Sony violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act when it collected the data from hundreds of fan sites, including those of such musical acts as Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

Sony representatives declined to comment.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10122375-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
made me hesitant to try out Free Realms (their free kids MMO coming out in 09).

[curryking1]

There's really nothing to say other than...

That's really, really bad. Whoever's the president of the music division definitely has egg on his face. It was probably not a move done at the highest level, I doubt the presidents micromanage data collection, but someone or some people did start it and obviously someone should find out who does stuff like this.

Whoever is responsible for starting whatever happened here obviously needs their bum(s) fired. I would like to hear what Stringer would have to say about the department.

[Kiwi]

D'oh!

[Shotgun Plasma]

hmmm........scary......

sony make me so hard

anyway, wonder if they checking up people download games rom....

[Raitei]

it was probably something like a survey on some singers websites