YouTube’s Settlement with FTC Gives Impetus to Children’s Online Privacy
In the largest settlement pertaining to children’s privacy, Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube LLC on September 4 agreed to pay $170 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney General (NYAG) for illegally collecting personal data from children without their parents’ consent and serving them with targeted advertising in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998 (COPPA).
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