Lawsuit Claims Disney Spied on Kids Playing Mobile Games and Sold Info to Advertisers. The Walt Disney Company is facing a lawsuit alleging it violated federal law aimed at protecting childrens online privacy. The company allegedly allowed ad tech companies to embed software in its apps, enabling the collection of childrens personal information. The class action suit claims that children playing Disneys mobile games have been personally identified by Disney and that their data was scooped up for the purpose of future commercial exploitation. The complaint, naming as plaintiff Amanda Rushing and her child, along with others similarly situated, was filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Ad tech companies Upsight, Unity, and Kochava were also accused in the complaint as being responsible for embedding software in Disneys gamesincluding Disney Princess Palace Petsaimed at tracking, collecting, and exporting childrens personal information. That data, the lawsuit alleges, is being sold to third party party companies for the purpose of tracking individual childrens behavior across multiple apps and devices. On a recent trip to Disney World, I had an unusual experience. I rode a ride. It broke. We wereRead more Read. Specifically, Disney and its ad partners are accused of violating the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA, a Federal Trade Commission regulation placing restrictions and requirements on websites and online services directed at children under 1. The complaint notes that Disney has been accused of violating COPPA in the past, including in 2. Playdom Inc. paid a penalty for allegedly collecting and disclosing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of children without parental consent. The ad tech Disney is said to have embedded in its gaming appsknown as software development kits or SDKis described as having secretly collected the personal information of children using Disneys apps for tracking their online behavior to facilitate behavioral advertising or marketing analysis. These robust online profiles include details such as a childs geographical location, browsing history, and app usage, the suit alleges. Whats more, Rushing alleges that Disney failed to obtain verifiable parental consent. She never knew, the complaint says, that Disney collected, disclosed, or used her childs personal information because Disney and its ad tech partners did not provide any of the required disclosures, and furthermore never sought verifiable parental consent because it never actually provided a mechanism through which consent could be provided. As a company long engaged in the practice of engagingand profiting fromchildren, Disney needs to make sure its games and apps comply with the law, Michael Sobol, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, said in a statement. They and the companies they work with always have to obtain verifiable parental consent before extracting kids data from their mobile devices when kids play Disneys mobile apps. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by the law firms of Lieff Cabraser and Carney Bates Pulliam. An employee in Disneys consumer products division declined to comment. Ap4IBYncsE/VOSzsYTKp0I/AAAAAAAAEiA/xbU_UUjZTQY/s1600/Capture.PNG' alt='Best Recording Software For Blue Yeti Pro Software' title='Best Recording Software For Blue Yeti Pro Software' />Blue YetiYeti Pro. If you like Blue Microphones and want higher quality audio, then go with the Yeti. The Yeti is a condenser mic with its own builtin volume. Bring Your Recordings Out of the Cold. 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This is a step by step guide to setting up a professional quality podcast recording studio for 2 people. Here is how it looks to use the system. You can hear the end result of this podcast here. Complete step by step tutorial at the bottom of this page. Podcast Recording Studio Equipment Checklist Here is what youll need. Audio Technica ATR 2. Microphone These come with XLR Cables Mic StandScarlet 2i. Mixer This comes with the USB cable needed to plug into your laptopPop Filter. This equipment will cost less than 3. Apple headphone recording system. NOTE If you know its just going to be you speaking, you dont need the Scarlet 2i. Audio Interface. Its perfectly fine to use the Audio Technica as a USB. The Scarlet just makes it sound a little better. Optional Equipment Macbook Pro This is the best computer in the landBeats by Dr. Dre These headphones just feel and sound really coolShould I Invest in a Podcast Recording Studio Yes. If youre serious about creating a podcast that people want to listen to, quality recording equipment is a no brainer. In my experience after producing well over 2. If youve come this far, youre going to be investing a significant amount of time into your show. Quality should be high on your priority list. Especially since its so inexpensive. With all the time you spend recording, producing and publishing the investment will pay off many times over. Podcast Recording Studio Software I like the simplest software available. For Skype interviews, I use piezo. For in person interviews and when recording alone, I use Audacity. How to Set Up Your Podcast Recording Studio Podcasting Hardware Instructions. The goal of this tutorial is to describe exactly how to create high quality recordings. Well go through unpacking your equipment, plugging it all together, getting the free recording software and making your first recording. I take an Audio Technica ATR 2. First a mic stand in 2 pieces that you get to screw together. Then we examine the XLR cable which plugs the microphone to the mixer Scarlett 2i. The box also has a microphone and the USB cable in case you dont want to work with a mixer like the Scarlett 2i. We plug the XLR cable into the Scarlett 2i. So you actually get to watch me build my podcast recording studio right in front of your eyes. Next we plug the mixer into the computer using a USB port which connects to the back of the mixer and the USB port of the Mac. Book or whatever computer you have. I go over a quick little breakdown of how to set the knobs, switches and dials on the mixer. There arent a lot there, but walking through this short video will help avoid confusion in the future. I even show best practices for where the knobs should be set to make a quality podcast recording. Podcasting Recording Studio Software Instructions. After that, we get Audacity onto our computers as its an inexpensive and simple solution for making your podcast recordings on your own or with a live guest in the room. Of course, Im a fan of simplicity. If you want to get some complex recording software, go for it. But dont come whining to me when you fail to record because you dont want to wait 1. I believe that simplicity is important for creators. How To Install Big Iphone. When you get your flow state going, you dont want to stop and fall down a rabbit hole of audio geek complexity. While Audacity is loading up I do a quick demonstration of recording sound quality with, and without the mixer. Listen to the difference in the recording between the poor i. Phone recording, the good USB microphone recording and finally the great mixer recording. After breaking down sound quality, we dive back into Audacity and I describe how to set each setting to record from the proper source. 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Im going to set this up so you can watch this podcast recording studio come together now. Here we have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i. This one works great for two channels when youre live recording. Here we have a XLR cable. This is what the microphone looks like when its all set up, so right now were going to set up the microphone and plug it into the computer so you can see exactly how to have, how to set up a really nice recording studio. Unboxing Podcast Recording Studio Equipment. So, Im just going to open this up. Audio Technica box up, right now. So these things come with as you can see right here, this is the mic stand. Screw the mic stand on like that, then stand it up, this will make it so you can operate it, with it from your desk. Explaining Podcast Recording Equipment. This is the XLR cable. This is the microphone. And this is the USB plug, so you really can just use this microphone with just a USB stick but if you really want the really high quality, you can go with the XLR cable. So after youre done with the box, and then as youre setting it up, if you want to set it up with the XLR cable, you just untie the cable. This end goes in here, so thatll click, its on, and then this one goes into the mixer. Explaining the Pop Filter. You also want to get a pop filter. I got the colorful ones, so you can go with like, pink or blue or whatever, but most people will go with black, I think that that, um. But these actually will make a big difference in your recording quality. For these you just want to stretch them, pull them over as tight as you can, and then once theyre on, oh jeez, they dont come off. There you go. Setting up the Microphone and the Audio Interface. So, to set it up, the Scarlett comes with the USB connector. You plug the USB connector, which is this one right here, into the back of the USB connector, and then you plug the thing into your computer. Youll see this, when the lights on, let me explain real quick what all these are. These are the gains so when youre recording you want to make sure generally putting these at about like three quarters, you can see, I dont know if you can see it on the video, but the little nods are about pointing towards me, theyre like this, so you want to turn them at about three quarters. But with these, what you do want to do, is make it so that your audio average is in between like five and seven five. The instrument ones dont matter. This button, you want to make sure that this button is pushed in. This is what feeds power to the microphone. The monitor is unimportant unless youre, you know, connecting to speakers.