YouTube is paying $170 million fine for allegedly collecting children’s data, and making some changes to the platform... but you still need to take these steps to protect your kids online.
YouTube is paying $170 million fine for allegedly collecting children’s data without their parents’ permission.
Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said it’s a positive step that children will be subjected to less targeted advertising on the popular site, but he was disappointed regulators weren’t demanding broader changes. COPPA is one of those specific carve outs, according to Angela Campbell, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who filed the initial complaint against YouTube and Google on behalf of groups including the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy.
The site should also have an easy-to-read “direct notice” to parents asking for permission to collect data. Parents need to give “verifiable consent.” They can consent by signing a form, linking a credit card to an account or other steps. And if they don’t consent, the collection won’t happen. For he typical parent needing to navigate a ‘woolly media landscape,’ it’s really difficult.
And sites that openly target younger audiences can have tricky data-collection policies. “Most of time, privacy policies are incomprehensible,” Campbell said. She’s been practicing law for 30 years — and she said she gets confused by some of the verbiage that can come up.Furthermore, many parents could sign off and give consent for their kids data to be collected, without actually reading the privacy policy. Studies have shown the majority of consumers breeze by the digital fine print.
Parents can also rescind their consent and make websites delete their child’s personal information, the FTC said.
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