Paper Info
Title
“Money makes the world go around”: Identifying Barriers to Better Privacy in Children’s Apps From Developers’ Perspectives
Abstract
ABSTRACT The industry for children’s apps is thriving at the cost of children’s privacy: these apps routinely disclose children’s data to multiple data trackers and ad networks. As children spend increasing time online, such exposure accumulates to long-term privacy risks. In this paper, we used a mixed-methods approach to investigate why this is happening and how developers might change their practices. We base our analysis against 5 leading data protection frameworks that set out requirements and recommendations for data collection in children’s apps. To understand developers’ perspectives and constraints, we conducted 134 surveys and 20 semi-structured interviews with popular Android children’s app developers. Our analysis revealed that developers largely respect children’s best interests; however, they have to make compromises due to limited monetisation options, perceived harmlessness of certain third-party libraries, and lack of availability of design guidelines. We identified concrete approaches and directions for future research to help overcome these barriers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445599
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anirudh Ekambaranathan100.34
Jun Zhao286987.96
Max Van Kleek354258.95