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The free TV company briefly wasn’t sure what it should do with data from kids

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Telly, the company that will give you a free TV in exchange for showing you persistent advertisements on a second display, made a pretty big slip-up in a now-deleted part of its privacy policy. In a thread on Twitter, reporter Shoshana Wodinsky spotted a line that questioned whether there’s a way to avoid deleting the data it collects on children. Yikes.

The gaffe appeared in the “PersonalData of Children” section (typo is Telly’s). “If we learn we have collectedPersonal Data from a child under 13 years of age, we will delete thatinformation as quickly as possible.” That sounds pretty normal, right? Well, the next line goes full first-person and states: “(I don’t know that this is accurate. Do wehave to say we will delete the…

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