ICO Probes Companies Including Apple, Google

ICO Probes Companies Including Apple, Google
A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken on April 12, 2020. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Benzinga
Updated:
The UK’s data protection regulator contacted 40 companies in the areas of social media, gaming, video, music streaming, including Apple Inc. and Google, Financial Times reports.

The Information Commissioner’s Office aims to investigate their interactions with children, including location tracking, personalizing content or advertising, and serving up behavioral nudges, like automatically playing videos endangering children online and breaching UK’s Children Code.