Disney will pay $ 10 million to settle the FTC complaint that collected children’s data on YouTube

Federal Trade Committee Disney will pay 10 million dollars to settle allegations that the entertainment giant allowed data to be collected on YouTube videos for children. Under the online privacy protection base for children, also known as Companies must notify parents and obtain parental approval if they collect information from minors. According to FTC complaints, Disney has failed to properly naming some YouTube videos as “for children”, allowing the company to collect data and provide targeted ads to viewers under the age of 13.

The suggested of FTC will also require Disney to create a review process to determine when and how videos are set properly with YouTube Made for Kids. YouTube released Made for Kids after a Settlement in 2019 on charges that the video platform has violated COPPA. Google faced an additional settlement Last month of a similar collective lawsuit.