{"id":1174821,"date":"2023-08-23T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174821"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:32:10","slug":"youtube-may-face-billions-in-fines-if-ftc-confirms-child-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174821","title":{"rendered":"YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GettyImages-1229862685-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GettyImages-1229862685.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"768\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/in-this-photo-illustration-a-youtube-kids-logo-displayed-on-news-photo\/1229862685\">SOPA Images \/ Contributor | LightRocket<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Four nonprofit groups seeking to protect kids&#8217; privacy online asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate YouTube today, after back-to-back reports allegedly showed that YouTube is still targeting personalized ads on videos &#8220;made for kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now it has become urgent that the FTC probe YouTube&#8217;s data and advertising practices, the groups&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/fairplayforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FTCRequestForInvestigationAug23.pdf\">letter<\/a> said, and potentially intervene. Otherwise, it&#8217;s possible that YouTube could continue to allegedly harvest data on millions of kids, seemingly in violation of the Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC Act.<\/p>\n<p>The first <a href=\"https:\/\/adalytics.io\/blog\/are-youtube-ads-coppa-compliant\">report<\/a> alleging YouTube&#8217;s noncompliance with federal laws came last week from Adalytics and was quickly corroborated by research from Fairplay, one of the groups behind the FTC letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/23\/business\/youtube-ads-kids-children-privacy.html\">The New York Times reported<\/a>. Both groups ran ad campaigns to test if YouTube was really blocking all personalized ads from appearing in children&#8217;s channels, as YouTube said it was. Both found that &#8220;Google and YouTube permit and report on behavioral ad targeting on &#8216;made-for-kids&#8217; videos, even though neither should be possible under COPPA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962721#p3\">Read 18 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962721&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images \/ Contributor | LightRocket) Four nonprofit groups seeking to protect kids&#8217; privacy online asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate YouTube today, after back-to-back reports allegedly showed that YouTube is still targeting personalized ads on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1174821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1174821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}