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YouTube fined in millions over kids' data privacy breach
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IANS | 20 Jul, 2019
Google has reportedly reached a
multimillion-dollar settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) over alleged violations of children's data privacy laws on its
content sharing app YouTube.
The settlement comes after an FTC
investigation found that Google improperly collected children's data
which is a breach of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, CNET
reported on Friday.
However, the Department of Justice has yet
to sign off on the details of the fine, hence the exact amount YouTube
would lose in the settlement remains unknown.
Earlier in June it
was reported that Google could face fines from a late-stage
investigation by the federal government into YouTube's handling of
children's videos, after which the platform said it was considering
significant changes to protect its youngest content creators and
viewers.
One of the US Senators, Ed Markey, had also sent a
letter to the FTC asking the commission to "hold YouTube accountable for
any illegal activity affecting children that the company may have
committed".
In addition to the already existing enquiries on
YouTube, the Centre for Digital Democracy and the Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood also approached the FTC suggesting penalties
for the video streaming giant.
They recommended all children's
data be deleted, civil penalties, plus "a $100 million fund to be used
to support the production of non-commercial, high-quality and diverse
content for children", the report noted.
To combat such
repetitive issues, especially involving kids' privacy, the platform is
considering putting all the content for children on the YouTube Kids app
that was launched in 2015.
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