The FTC should have issued a colossal fine that fits Google’s crime and demanded that Google make significant structural changes to their business practices.
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YouTube knowingly broke federal law by tracking kids in order to rake in advertising dollars without the requisite notice to and permission from parents. But the FTC let Google off the hook with a drop-in-the-bucket fine. Not a single Google executive or investor will bat an eye.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1169237574709403648 …
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The FTC should have required Google to delete all data it has collected from children under 13 because it never should have amassed an untold amount of this data in the first place.
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The FTC should have prohibited Google from launching any new kids’ offerings before review and approval by independent experts because Google has forfeited the benefit of the doubt when it comes to putting kids’ well-being first.
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The FTC should have required annual public audits into Google’s children’s privacy practices because parents deserve to know if this tech behemoth continues to track kids.
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Where the FTC fails, Congress must act. We can start by passing my COPPA 2.0 legislation w/
@SenHawleyPress that extends privacy protections to teens, creates an eraser button so that young users can eliminate personal info they’ve posted, and bans targeted ads directed at kids.Show this thread
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See: "FTC YouTube Settlement Fails to Safeguard Children's Privacy" https://epic.org/2019/09/ftc-youtube-settlement-fails-t.html …
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