FTC Fines YouTube $170 Million

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THE NEW YORK TIMES reports GOOGLE has agreed to pay, "a record $170 million fine and to make changes to protect children’s privacy on YOUTUBE, as regulators said the video site had knowingly and illegally harvested personal information from youngsters and used that data to profit by targeting them with ads."

The report notes the fine was part of a settlement with the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION and NEW YORK’s Attorney General. "They said YOUTUBE had violated a federal children’s privacy law known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA," wrote THE TIMES.

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