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The FTC is currently investigating YouTube for illegally collecting personal information from children under 13 and FTC officials are reportedly considering one drastic solution to the problem: asking individual channels to turn off advertising on their videos!
According to a new Bloomberg report, FTC Chairman Joseph Simons suggested in a call last week that a settlement from the commission (an investigation is reportedly in its late stages) probably won’t recommend the most dramatic potential solution: that YouTube move all children’s content off its main site and onto the YouTube Kids platform.
Instead, the FTC is consulting with privacy advocates about the feasibility of a solution that would apparently make individual YouTube channels responsible for stopping YouTube as a whole from collecting the personal data of users under 13. (In order to target ads, YouTube collects personal information from all users.) It’s unclear if FTC officials are talking about opening the possibility for all channels manually turning off advertising, or if it’s only thinking about asking channels that feature young creators, or maybe only channels that make content for kids.
Full articles and sources:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-about-disabling-youtube-ads-for-kids-privacy
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More regulation and interference! I'm all for the protection of minors but all this seems completely OTT!
Thoughts?
According to a new Bloomberg report, FTC Chairman Joseph Simons suggested in a call last week that a settlement from the commission (an investigation is reportedly in its late stages) probably won’t recommend the most dramatic potential solution: that YouTube move all children’s content off its main site and onto the YouTube Kids platform.
Instead, the FTC is consulting with privacy advocates about the feasibility of a solution that would apparently make individual YouTube channels responsible for stopping YouTube as a whole from collecting the personal data of users under 13. (In order to target ads, YouTube collects personal information from all users.) It’s unclear if FTC officials are talking about opening the possibility for all channels manually turning off advertising, or if it’s only thinking about asking channels that feature young creators, or maybe only channels that make content for kids.
Full articles and sources:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-about-disabling-youtube-ads-for-kids-privacy
FTC Reportedly Considering Asking YouTubers To Turn Off Ads In The Name Of Child Privacy - Tubefilter
Without officially confirming the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is in fact investigating YouTube for illegally collecting personal information from children under 13, FTC officials are reportedly weighing one potentially preposterous solution to the problem: asking individual channels to turn...
www.tubefilter.com
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More regulation and interference! I'm all for the protection of minors but all this seems completely OTT!
Thoughts?