A bill proposed in the US House of Representatives on Jan. 9 aims to give parents greater control over the data collected about their children by amending the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. The bipartisan proposal would raise the age of parental consent protection from 13 to 16 years and give parents the authority to force companies to purge any private information they may have collected about children. Before the proposal, mobile applications were not affected by the legislation, and parents werent given the power to delete any personal information of their children.”]