But, in a case like Amazon, the question of whose right is actually infringed may be raised. It is claimed that the children physically committed the act of mistakenly making in-app purchases, but the charges are made to the parents' account. Therefore, the collected data is technically parents' personal information and thus their privacy is also violated. Although COPPA's goal is to increase parental involvement in children's online activities, resources to do so are limited. Hiller et al. (2008) argues that “if COPPA is to protect children online through parental involvement, then new tools are needed to assist them, technical methods that allow parents to assert control over website practices and even over their own technically sophisticated children " (page 444). Parents have authority over their children as dependents, but parental controls over electronic devices can only go a long way if today's children are increasingly informed in the progress
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