YouTube under Fed investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy

guest · Mar 21, 2020

YouTube Hit With New Children's Privacy Lawsuit
March 18, 2020
https://www.mediapost.com/publicati...e-hit-with-new-childrens-privacy-lawsuit.html

A Massachusetts mother of two young children is suing Google for allegedly tracking her children's YouTube viewing habits for ad purposes.

Google “engaged in unfair acts ... by collecting personal information, such as persistent identifiers, from viewers it knew were children under the age of thirteen, without providing notice to or obtaining verifiable consent from the children’s parents,” Paula Ridenti alleges in a class-action complaint brought late last week in federal court in Boston.
Ridenti says her two young children, identified only by the initials R.A. and R.M.A., “have consistently over the last four years viewed channels on YouTube directed to children.”
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The complaint draws heavily on the Federal Trade Commission's recent prosecution of Google for allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting personal information from YouTube users under 13, without their parents' permission
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