How gaming apps use your private data to track you | Marketplace

Marketplace investigates how much information you’re giving away when playing mobile games, and where that information ends up. We uncover the methods app developers use to keep kids playing for as long as possible – and expose loopholes in the laws meant to protect children’s privacy.

#Data #Investigation #Gaming

00:00 – What do apps gain from collecting data?
11:02 – Going undercover, attempting to buy kids’ data
15:43 – Tracing data collected from a kid
18:46 – Privacy Commissioner response
19:31 – How to protect your kids

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GAMING THE SYSTEM

producer/director
MADELINE McNAIR

associate producers
BOBBY HRISTOVA
DEXTER McMILLAN

reporter
CHRISTINE BIRAK

editor
AARON TAYLOR

camera
DAVID MACINTOSH
TURGUT YETER

additional footage
BRAWL STARS
PAPER.IO 2
POND5
YOUTUBE: OFFICE OF THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER OF CANADA

art director
DAVID ABRAHAMS

media management
ASTORIA LUZZI

social media producers
CAROLINE GDYCZYNSKI
BRITT PURDY

colour correction
KYLE J. SMITH

sound mix
MARIANA HUTTEN