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An estimated 32.1 million websites, roughly 8% of the internet's 401.6 million registered domains, are likely child-directed in 2026, based on Pixalate's measured COPPA app rate applied to Verisign's Q2 2026 Domain Name Industry Brief. See how the FTC legally defines a child-directed site and how many child-directed apps recent audits have actually found.
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More than 4.7 million under-16 social media accounts were deactivated, removed, or restricted in Australia within days of its minimum-age law, per the eSafety Commissioner's March 2026 compliance update, while separate UK research puts underage profile ownership at 40%.
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73% of the 200-plus popular children's apps and platforms Common Sense Media reviewed for its 2023 State of Kids' Privacy report monetize personal data in some way. See what surveys from Pew, Aura, and FOSI say about how rarely parents actually read or check the policy behind it.
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57% of child-directed apps analyzed by UC Berkeley's ICSI potentially violate COPPA through undisclosed data sharing, and Human Rights Watch found 196 ad-tech companies embedded in government-endorsed kids' ed-tech in 2022. Here is the 2026 picture of how many apps illegally track children, sourced from academic research, watchdog audits, and FTC enforcement data.
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99% of child-directed apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play fail to obtain verifiable parental consent, according to Pixalate's Q2 2025 report. See COPPA enforcement totals, kids' device ownership, and teen social media data for 2026.
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