"Kids watch a lot of YouTube. Google's keenly aware of that: It offers a version of the YouTube app that's explicitly made for children's content in YouTube Kids, and earlier this year, rolled out a controversial AI-based age estimation system to automatically flag accounts that may be used by minors. These measures are meant in part to help Google avoid legal trouble - like a 2019 class-action suit filed in California accusing Google and YouTube of violating privacy laws by collecting information about minors"
"The suit (PDF) this settlement comes out of charges that Google and the owners of popular YouTube channels "baited vulnerable children using cartoons, nursery rhymes, and other child-directed content" in order to collect identifying data about those children in service of Google's advertising business. This, the suit explains, was in violation of the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits online service providers from collecting personal data about children under the age of 13 without parental consent."
A 2019 class-action lawsuit accused Google and YouTube of collecting identifying information about children under 13 without parental consent. The complaint alleged that popular channels "baited vulnerable children using cartoons, nursery rhymes, and other child-directed content" to harvest data for advertising. The alleged conduct violated the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which bars online services from collecting personal data from children under 13 without parental consent. The case settled for $30 million. Individuals who were under 13 and watched child-directed YouTube content between 2013 and 2020 can now submit claims to potentially receive part of the settlement.
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