Paidsettlement · COPPA
YouTube's $170M COPPA settlement over children's data
$170M
US Federal Trade Commission
US · 2019
Status: Paid
What happened
The FTC and the New York Attorney General alleged that YouTube collected personal data from viewers of child-directed channels through cookies, without parental consent, and used it for targeted advertising. It was a record COPPA penalty at the time.
How it affected users
Children were tracked and profiled for advertising in violation of US children's privacy law.
Status timeline
Sep 4, 2019
Penalty announced.
Sources
- FTC press releaseregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "YouTube's $170M COPPA settlement over children's data," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2019-09-04. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-us-youtube-coppa-2019/