The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act requires that all company’s attempting to gather personal information from children under 13 to get parents’ explicit permission. If you want to play the other levels, you'll need to use real money to purchase them from within the app. Now the folks at PlayFirst have teamed up with Nickelodeon to add some diner dash flavor to the networks most popular cartoon figure SpongeBob.
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This free version of the game has just seven levels available. SpongeBob and Diner Dash PlayFirst brought us the smash hit Diner Dash and then published a series of games all based from the first adventures of Flo and her local Diner Town community.
The complaint asks the FTC to investigate possible deceptive marketing practices by the developer, PlayFirst, and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB), which owns Nickelodeon, the channel on which the SpongeBob SquarePants TV show appears.Ī Nickelodeon spokesman told the NYT that the game was removed from the app store as a temporary measure while the company investigated the complaint. SpongeBob Diner Dash is a casual management game where you control SpongeBob as he serves food in Mr. The makers of 'SpongeBob Diner Dash' are the subject of a Federal Trade Commission complaint about the gathering of children's personal information. PlayFirst and Nickelodeon team up to bring you the dish-flipping fun of Diner Dash with a super awesome SpongeBob twist Soak up 5-star feeding fun with SpongeBob Mr.
The Center for Digital Democracy, an advocacy group, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the app - a remake of the popular Diner Dash with a SpongeBob SquarePants branding - collected personal information from children without first obtaining parental permission, The New York Times reports. A children’s app, SpongeBob Diner Dash, has been removed from the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store on privacy concerns.
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