CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.
CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.A Marketplace investigation exposes how advertisers can use mobile games that attract children to collect information about the players and build advertising profiles.
Since most parents look at the app store rating and not individual games privacy policies, many children could be playing games that are collecting their data without parents realizing it. Apple said it doesn't dictate an app's privacy policy, apps in the App Store must follow local laws and none of the games Marketplace looked at are in its App Store Kids category, which it says has different rules for apps collecting user data.You can learn more on how to limit advertisers from tracking you on your mobile device by watching the full investigation, "Gaming the System," on Friday, March 7 at 8 p.m..
But thanks to a massive leak of records — which reveals in an unprecedented way the internal workings of the scammers — Radio-Canada and a global team of journalists have been able to track them down. The federal government is moving to add PFAS, a class of thousands of chemicals used in a wide range of products from food containers to clothing, to the official list of toxic substances, in light of growing scientific and public concern about the substances in Canada and around the world.
The announcement will not immediately ban any new PFAS, but it will start a process to restrict them in the future. The government has started a 60-day consultation period required before adding PFAS to the toxic substances list.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with kids at the Stationview YMCA Childcare Centre in St. Thomas, Ont., on May 13, 2024.
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