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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Edith Ramirez speaks at the FTC in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, where she announced Apple will refund $32.5 million to consumers to settle a federal case involving purchases that kids made without their parents' permission while playing on mobile apps. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Edith Ramirez pauses during a news conference at the FTC in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, where she announced Apple will refund $32.5 million to consumers to settle a federal case involving purchases that kids made without their parents' permission while playing on mobile apps. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Edith Ramirez speaks at the FTC in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, where she announced Apple will refund $32.5 million to consumers to settle a federal case involving purchases that kids made without their parents' permission while playing on mobile apps. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Nicholas Simmons, 20, of Greece, N.Y., warms himself on a steam grate with three homeless men by the Federal Trade Commission, just blocks from the Capitol, during frigid temperatures in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **
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Four homeless men warm themselves on a steam grate by the Federal Trade Commission, blocks from the Capitol, during frigid temperatures in Washington, Saturday, January 4, 2014. A winter storm that swept across the Midwest this week blew through the Northeast on Friday, leaving bone-chilling cold in its wake. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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This handout image provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows the cover of the FTC's “Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade" guide. The FTC is investigating an unspecified number of software companies that make cellphone apps to determine whether they have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from their phones then sharing it with advertisers and data brokers, the agency said. Such apps can capture a child's physical location, phone numbers of their friends and more. (Associated Press/FTC)
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This undated handout image provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows an advertisement for the `Your Baby Can Read' program. The man behind the `Your Baby Can Read' program _ videos claiming to teach infants to read _ is in trouble with the FTC. The FTC has filed false and deceptive advertising charges against the creator, Robert Titzer, for promoting the program in ads and product packaging as a tool to teach infants as young as nine months to read. The `Your Baby Can Read' program used a combination of videos, flash cards and pop-up books and was advertised extensively on television, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. (AP Photo/FTC)
