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Open the companion tool →Why the questions come first
A kids' app that adds an AI chat or voice feature changes what happens to a child's words, voice, and likeness — often to train a model, and often with defaults that favor the developer. Asking after the download means the data is already flowing.
The five questions are narrow and answerable: what it records, who sees it, whether it trains on it, what the age floor actually is, and which parent setting changes any of it. If the answers are vague, that is itself the reading.
The protocol
- Identify the app's AI feature — chat, voice, image, or personalization.
- Ask the five questions: recording, sharing, training, age floor, and the parent setting.
- Check the developer's privacy page and the app-store data label for the answers.
- If answers are vague or the feature cannot be turned off, choose a different app.
What the tool does
Review a kids' app's AI feature and get a plain question brief to answer before download. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a question aid, not legal advice about children's privacy law, and not a guarantee about any app's behavior. Verify against the developer's current privacy page.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
Check the app's privacy page and app-store data label before the download. Report apps that collect children's data improperly to the FTC.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not applicable — the artifact is a parent's question set; the answers come from the developer's disclosure, and a model paraphrase would only obscure them. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is data-privacy-exposure; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.