U.S. children apps collecting PI 2021

As of June 2021, 42 percent of Android mobile apps tailored for children and hosted in the Google Play Store in the United States collected persistent identifier data (such as user IP address), violating the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Additionally,16 percent of children's apps on the platform collected online contact information, while 12 percent collected names.

Share of mobile apps for children hosted on the Google Play Store in the United States that collect selected types of personal information (PI) in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) as of June 2021

Characteristic	Share of apps
Persistent identifier (e.g. IP address)	42%
Online contact information	16%
Name	12%
A screen or user name that function as online contact information	7%
Geolocation	7%
Address	7%
A telephone number	7%
A photo, video, or audio file	2.4%
A social security number	0.6%

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Release date

June 2021

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Region

United States

Survey time period

June 2021

Special properties

analysis of the leading 300 free apps and leading 200 paid apps in the Google Play Store

Supplementary notes

According to the source: "20 percent of all the apps we studied had some kind of COPPA violations." The source does not provide an exact survey date. The date provided is the publication date.

The values may not sum up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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