On the NSA/etc - question: Do they also track kids?

[The Straight Story]

Came across this today:

Google-Viacom Child Privacy Suit Sent to N.J.

(CN) - Six class actions alleging that Google and Viacom violate children's privacy by using cookies to track their Internet use and target them for ads will be heard in New Jersey, a federal judge ruled.

Viacom, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon and other outlets.

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent federal actions filed in six states to New Jersey, in its June ruling.

Stephanie Fryar filed a nationwide class action against Viacom and Google on behalf of her two children, both of then younger than 13, in Houston in December 2012.

Fryar claimed that when her sons registered and created profiles on three Viacom-operated websites - nick.com, nickjr.com, and neopets.com - the defendants placed a doubleclick.net cookie "id" on the children's computers to track their communications to those websites and others.

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Fryar sought class damages for violations of the Wiretap Act and Video Privacy Protection Act, intrusion upon seclusion, and unjust enrichment.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/02/59012.htm

And:

Tracking Kids Online: Uncle Sam Wants to Make It Harder
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-01/tracking-kids-online-uncle-sam-wants-to-make-it-harder

Kids have cell phones, surf the net, email, etc - is this differentiated at all in tracking by the government?

[Recursion]

1. Cross domain cookies were an awful idea and should not have been implemented

This is a big reason why.

[dkf]

2. All data all the time. Hell yeah it's getting sucked in.

All those little kids in the bath tub pics that seemed so cute... That's a problem.