Google will pay $150-200 million to settle allegations YouTube violated a
children's privacy law while gathering data to better target its
adverts, US media reports said Friday.
The US Federal Trade Commission agreed the amount of the settlement
against YouTube parent Google, which if approved by the Justice
Department would be the largest settlement in a case involving
children's privacy, the New York Times reported.
The allegations against YouTube were made by privacy groups who said the
platform had violated laws protecting children's privacy by gathering
data on users under the age of 13 without obtaining permission from
parents, Politico reported.
The FTC is expected to announce its decision on the settlement in September, the New York Times said.
US regulators have long argued Google fails to protect children from
harmful content and data collection on its YouTube platform.
Advocacy group The Center for Digital Democracy said in a statement that
the proposed settlement would be "woefully low" given Google's size and
revenue, and called on the FTC to "enjoin Google from committing
further violations" of children's privacy law.
Google remains the money-making engine for parent company Alphabet, with
most of its revenue coming from digital ads, which accounted for $116
billion of the $136 billion the Silicon Valley-based company took in
last year.
In January, France's CNIL data watchdog slapped Google with a record
50-million-euro fine for failing to meet the EU's tough General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force early last year.
Google is appealing the fine.
Fellow US tech giant Facebook recently settled a record $5 billion fine
with the US Federal Trade Commission for misusing users' private data.
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