The definition of a website or online service directed to children is expanded to include plug-ins or ad networks that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information through a child-directed website or online service.

ENGADGET: FTC introduces changes to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, parental permission now required to collect information

It requires that operators of websites or online services that are either directed to children under 13 or have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information from children under 13 give notice to parents and get their verifiable consent before collecting, using, or disclosing such personal information, and keep secure the information they collect from children.

ENGADGET: FTC introduces changes to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, parental permission now required to collect information

In the other case, the FTC charged Path, the operator of the eponymous social-networking app, with deceiving its users by collecting personal information from their mobile address books without their knowledge or consent.

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When not prescribing purges and pills to his sickly employer and his friends, Sloane crisscrossed the island on horseback or on foot, collecting plant and shrub specimens, guided by slaves from the sugar plantations with knowledge of local medically useful seeds and grasses.

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