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You may have missed the first two-thirds of the article. The FTC has not announced anything; there are four trade groups who have performed investigations and
by tadfisher 3y ago
You may have missed the first two-thirds of the article.
The FTC has not announced anything; there are four trade groups who have performed investigations and have sent reports of potential COPPA violations to the FTC.
The allegations are specifically that YouTube is serving targeted ads to children in violation of their consent decree with the FTC (for previous COPPA violations).
The statement from Fairplay that YouTube says is a misunderstanding of cookies follows:
> YouTube and Google have agreed to ensure that, every time a video is uploaded to YouTube by a content creator, the content creator will have to designate the video as child-directed or not. For videos designated as child-directed, YouTube will not serve behavioral advertisements or track persistent identifiers. ... If YouTube does then serve behavioral advertisements using persistent identifiers or otherwise engage in tracking for such content, it will have violated both COPPA and the order.