Following the FTC’s announcement that it had fined social networking app Path $800,000 for violating federal children’s privacy laws, the company took to its official blog to release a statement explaining what happened on its end. Path blamed both its own human error and technical glitches for allowing users under age 13 to sign up for accounts on Path without parental consent. As Path explained it its blog post:
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