{"id":57199,"date":"2023-08-21T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=57199"},"modified":"2023-08-21T07:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:30:29","slug":"google-replies-to-accusations-of-youtube-collecting-data-from-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/google-replies-to-accusations-of-youtube-collecting-data-from-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Replies to Accusations of YouTube Collecting Data From Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google, the parent company of YouTube, responded to a report alleging that YouTube advertisers <\/a>collect data from minors who watch videos on the platform by saying it has \u201cstrict policies\u201d around children\u2019s content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google Replies to Accusations of YouTube Collecting Data From Minors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Google published a blog post on August 18, a day after the report surfaced, reiterating its “strict privacy standards around made-for-kids content,” which is YouTube content designed to be viewed by children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BigTech titan stated that it had prioritized the development of kid-specific products such as YouTube Kids and monitored accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve invested a great deal of time and resources to protect kids on our platforms, especially when it comes to the ads they see\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It also stated that it had implemented a global restriction on age-sensitive and personalized advertisements<\/a> for users under 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also stated that it had implemented a global restriction on age-sensitive and personalized advertisements for users under 18. Additionally, the document clarified that third-party trackers are prohibited from ads appearing in children's content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analytics, a data analysis and transparency platform, published a 206-page report on August 17 alleging that advertisers on YouTube may be “inadvertently harvesting data from millions of children.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the claims made by the report are that the presence of cookies indicates a “breakdown” of privacy and that YouTube transmits an “undisclosed persistent, immutable unique identifier” with no explanation as to why it collects it, even on videos produced for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A New York Times<\/a> article also reported on the Analytics research, emphasizing an instance in which an adult-targeted advertisement from a Canadian bank was displayed on a video label for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analytics reported that surveillance software from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other companies was installed on the user's browser after the user clicked on the advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerns about Google's privacy and data collection standards have been expressed recently, as the company has released more products incorporating artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 11, Google was slapped with a lawsuit over its new AI data-scraping privacy policy\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> updates, with prosecutors claiming to represent millions of users whose privacy and property rights have been violated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than a month later, a report analyzing AI-powered extensions for Google's Chrome web browser concluded that two-thirds could compromise user security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 15, Google recently released a series of search engine enhancements incorporating sophisticated generative AI features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google, the parent company of YouTube, responded to a report alleging that YouTube advertisers collect data from minors who watch videos on the platform by saying it has \u201cstrict policies\u201d around children\u2019s content. Google published a blog post on August 18, a day after the report surfaced, reiterating its “strict privacy standards around made-for-kids content,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1457,14712,1936,5075],"class_list":["post-57199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-advertisement","tag-data-privacy","tag-google","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-151.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}