The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced the approval of its final settlement with Retina-X Studios regarding violations stemming from its three stalking apps. The app developer was alleged to have breached the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act while failing to adopt appropriate information security measures or conduct proper oversight with its service providers. The settlement prohibits Retina-X and its owner from developing and marketing apps that don't have legitimate purpose while calling for all previously collected user data to be deleted.
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