It does not ask for a home address or phone number. Krabs.Īpparently, the game is collecting users' e-mail addresses with promises of sending them a future newsletter. SpongeBob Diner Dash is a free app marketed to children, in which popular cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants must "seat, serve and satisfy even the squirmiest of patrons" and cater to the greedy Mr. Nickelodeon has removed the app from the store after an advocacy group filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging the game violated children's online privacy rights by collecting their e-mail addresses without parents' permission.Īccording to the Center for Digital Democracy, which filed the complaint earlier today, cable network Nickelodeon and mobile game-maker PlayFirst are misleadingly marketing the game and are violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Anyone wanting to download the SpongeBob Diner Dash game from Apple's iTunes app store today is out of luck.
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