YouTube starting this month is requiring all creators, regardless of location and whether or not they produce content intended for children, to designate whether their videos are made for kids. And ...

YouTube is a well-known video streaming service owned by Google that is at least as popular with adults as it is for children. One report notes that 96 percent of 18- to 24-year-old internet users in ...

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a U.S. federal law designed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by the ...

Kids love YouTube. The service is packed with ostensibly kid-friendly content. But child, consumer, and privacy advocacy groups are claiming YouTube illegally collects data about under-age viewers.

The FTC has proposed tightening up the rules protecting kids from the surveillance economy. The updated rules would require companies to get the OK from parents before sharing data with advertisers ...

In August 2017, Disney and three of its software developer vendors were sued in a class action in California in which it was alleged that Disney collected children ...

The COPPA rule prevents kids from having their personal information hoovered up and distributed online the way adults often consent to. Verifiable parental consent is required if that information is ...