Advocacy Groups Say YouTube Is Illegally Collecting Data From Children
23 privacy and children ’s protagonism groupsfiled a Federal Trade Commission complaintagainst YouTube , alleging the platformillegally take in datafrom children . The groups , led by the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood ( CCFC ) , allege YouTube is violating the Children ’s Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ) by pull in data from children under 13 without parents ’ permit . “ It ’s just basically unjust , ” Josh Golin , executive director of the CCFC , told Gizmodo , “ to apply Google ’s sinewy behavioral targeting on a child that does n’t yet understand what ’s going on ....