We must protect children from Fortnite and other manipulative games and apps
newsletter, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society program.maker Epic Games Inc. more than half a billion dollars for privacy violations and unwanted charges. Epic will pay a US$275-million penalty for violating children’s privacy law, change its default privacy settings and refund US$245-million for “tricking” users into making unintentional purchases.
We are in a unique moment as the country concurrently considers legislative interventions that can be complementary. The federal government is actively consulting on the future of competition policy while revisiting updates to federal private-sector privacy law and seeking to level the playing field between digital giants and content creators and news-media outlets.
Far too many mobile apps and games use manipulative tactics – often referred to as “dark patterns” – to keep kids online longer and extract data about them. Dark patterns don’t exist in a regulatory grey zone in Canada; in theory, we enforce against them through civil and criminal provisions in the Competition Act that seek to address deceptive advertising. But in practice, the successful application of these provisions is far less clear.
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