FTC v. Google/YouTube — $170M COPPA Settlement (Sep 2019)
Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 million to settle FTC and New York AG charges that YouTube collected personal data from children under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA. The settlement was the largest COPPA penalty at the time and required YouTube to develop a system for channel owners to identify child-directed content.
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