Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks

Virtual Worlds and Kids:

Mapping the Risks

A REPORT TO CONGRESS

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | DECEMBER 2009

Virtual Worlds and Kids:

Mapping the Risks

A REPORT TO CONGRESS

DECEMBER 2009

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Jon Leibowitz, Chairman

Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner

William E. Kovacic, Commissioner

J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner

Report Contributors

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Phyllis Hurwitz Marcus, Attorney, Division of Advertising Practices

Elizabeth Nach, Attorney, Division of Advertising Practices

Jessica Skretch, Visual Information Specialist, Division of Consumer and Business Education

Richard Quaresima, Assistant Director, Division of Advertising Practices

Mary Koelbel Engle, Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices

Bureau of Economics

Laura Hosken, Economist, Division of Consumer Protection

Isaac Knowles, 2008-2009 Research Analyst, Division of Consumer Protection

Julie Miller, Research Analyst, Division of Consumer Protection

John Mountjoy, Research Analyst, Division of Consumer Protection

James Lacko, Deputy Assistant Director, Division of Consumer Protection

Janis Pappalardo, Assistant Director, Division of Consumer Protection

Research Assistance

A special thanks to Kristin Lindsley and Geoffrey Weiss, graduate students at Indiana UniversityBloomington; Diana Finegold and Linda Henry, Investigators, Bureau of Consumer Protection;

Siwei Kwok and Kye Lippold, 2009 Summer Interns, Bureau of Economics; and, Lisa Fish, 2009

Summer Law Clerk, Bureau of Consumer Protection.

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