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Google Escapes Kids YouTube Data Collection Suit For Now
Law360 (July 2, 2021, 8:44 PM EDT) A California federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday brought by parents accusing Google and other companies of illegally collecting through YouTube children s personal information for targeted advertisements, finding the parents failed to show that their state law privacy claims are not preempted by the federal Children s Online Privacy Protection Act.
The parents, suing on behalf of their children, claim that Google LLC, its subsidiary YouTube and several companies that operate popular child-directed YouTube channels have invaded the privacy of users under 13 by gathering their personal information in order to create individual profiles that are key to the distribution of targeted.
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Everyone deserves a fair bit of privacy online, but it’s safe to say that the privacy of children tends to be given an even higher level of importance. The internet can be a relatively dangerous place for children if you’re not careful, so app stores should generally pay close attention to apps that are meant for kids because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up reducing the likelihood that children might have their privacy violated by some kind of app that they are using each and every day.
Most of the privacy protocols that have been put in place for the purposes of safeguarding children online come from COPPA, or the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Any app that is on the Google Play Store is supposed to conform to these rules and regulations if it is meant for an audience that is younger than thirteen years of age, but the unfortunate truth is that Google really isn’t doing a good enough job with ensuring that apps that don’