The FTC's probe found that the company violated privacy policies aimed at protecting children.
to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that it earned millions for illegally collecting personal information from children without their parents' consent. Shares of Google parent company Alphabet were up about 0.8% following the announcement.
The COPPA Rule requires child-directed sites to disclose data practices and get parental consent for collecting information on children under the age of 13. The complaint alleges YouTube collected personal information from "viewers of child-directed channels" without parental consent using cookies, which track user behavior across the internet.
"For the third time since 2011, the Federal Trade Commission is sanctioning Google for privacy violations," FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra said in a dissenting statement. "This latest violation is extremely serious. The company baited children using nursery rhymes, cartoons and other kid-directed content on curated YouTube channels to feed its massively profitable behavioral advertising business.
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