AgeCheq Makes COPPA-Compliant Software Development Kit Available on Adobe AIR

AgeCheq is making its ActionScript software development kit (SDK) available immediately as part of Adobe’s AIR software development tools, an AgeCheq news release said Monday. The software is designed to help desktop and mobile app developers comply with requirements under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). It does this by optimizing parental-publisher interaction and “accurately delivering” notices and approvals required by COPPA regulation. AIR is used by more than 3 million developers who create applications on desktop computers, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. Of the top 25 games on Facebook, 24 were built with AIR, said AgeCheq. It said AIR developers can “easily add COPPA compliance elements to their games.” It's "widely known that millions of children under 13 have Facebook accounts under a falsified age, in violation of Facebook's terms of service,” said AgeCheq CEO Roy Smith. “Game developers with child audiences cannot simply rely on Facebook's [terms of service] TOS to isolate them from their responsibility to protect child privacy." AgeCheq will also offer developers eight distinct SDKs that ease COPPA compliance, including for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, HTML5 and SDKs for the Unity and Corona game engines.