Google to pay $30 million to settle class-action suit over children's privacy
Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of illegally collecting data from child users without parental consent through its YouTube platform. The lawsuit claimed that Google then used this data to send targeted ads to the children. The proposed settlement, which is pending judicial approval, could cover 35 million to 45 million class members who were 13 or younger and watched YouTube between July 2013 and April 2020. This settlement comes after Google was fined $170 million in 2019 by the Federal Trade Commission for similar violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). As part of that earlier case, YouTube agreed to stop collecting data on videos aimed at children and Google and YouTube were prohibited from future COPPA violations.
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