$170 MILLION COPPA SETTLEMENT WITH GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC have settled with the FTC and New York Attorney General over allegations that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The complaint alleges the personal information collected was from viewers of child-directed channels in the form of persistent identifiers used to track internet usage, commonly known as cookies. According to the complaint, use of these cookies to deliver targeted ads to viewers of these channels resulted in YouTube earning millions of dollars.
Per the settlement Google and YouTube: