Google To Pay $30 Million To Settle Class-action Suit Over Children's Privacy

Google has reached a colony complete a suit that claimed it illegally collected information from kid users without parental consent done its YouTube video level and past sent them targeted ads. The tech elephantine will ammunition retired $30 cardinal to settee nan projected class-action suit. According to Reuters, nan plaintiffs' lawyers said location could beryllium 35 cardinal to 45 cardinal people members. Children aged 13 aliases younger who watched YouTube betwixt July 1, 2013 and April 1, 2020 could beryllium covered. The projected colony was revenge past nighttime and now awaits judge approval.

This colony amounts to a slap connected nan wrist compared to nan $170 cardinal fine Google faced successful 2019 pursuing a akin suit brought by nan Federal Trade Commission for alleged violations of nan Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Under nan position of that case, YouTube had agreed to extremity collecting information connected videos aimed astatine children, and some YouTube and Google were prohibited from early COPPA violations.