Google will pay a "record" fine of $ 170 million for the accusations of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York attorney general that he got great benefits on YouTube by illegally collecting personal information from children without parental consent.
The agreement, announced Wednesday by the Prosecutor's Office, requires that Google and YouTube pay 136 million to the FTC and 34 million to the state of New York for violating the Children's Internet Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) .
This 136 million fine is the largest amount the FTC has imposed in this area since the US Congress. enacted the law in 1998.
"YouTube promoted its popularity among children to potential corporate clients," said FTC President Joe Simons, who voted in favor of the agreement, adding that he recalled the reluctance of "the company to recognize that parts of its platform were clearly aimed at children, "so" there is no excuse for violations of the law by YouTube. "
US law requires sites aimed at children to disclose data practices and obtain parental consent to collect information about children under 13.
The administration alleges that YouTube collected personal information from "viewers of channels aimed at children" without parental consent using 'cookies', which track user behavior on the internet.
"Google and YouTube, knowingly and illegally, monitored, tracked and published ads aimed at young children just to keep advertising dollars rolling," New York attorney general Letitia James said in a statement after the announcement.
"These companies put children at risk and abuse their power, so we are imposing major reforms to their practices and making them pay one of the largest settlements for a privacy issue in the history of the United States," he added.
In a post this Wednesday, YouTube said it is taking action: "Since its early days, YouTube has been a site for people over 13, but with a boom in family content and the increase in shared devices, the likelihood of children watching without supervision has increased."
In four months, YouTube added, it will restrict the collection of data in videos aimed at children to "treat the data of anyone who sees children's content on YouTube as coming from a child, regardless of the user's age."
YouTube said it will stop posting personalized ads for children and will also disable comments and notifications on those videos.
YouTube recommended that parents use their separate application, YouTube Kids, to allow children under 13 to use the channel on their own.
In addition to the sanction, the agreement requires that Google and YouTube "develop, implement and maintain a system that allows channel owners to identify their content aimed at children on the video platform", so that it can ensure that it complies with the law .
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