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Title: Google to pay $30 million to settle class-action suit over children's
privacy

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:39:03 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtub...

Google has reached a settlement over a lawsuit that claimed it illegally
collected data from child users without parental consent through its YouTube
video platform and then sent them targeted ads. The tech giant will shell out
$30 million to settle the proposed class-action suit. According to Reuters,
the plaintiffs' lawyers said there could be 35 million to 45 million class
members. Children aged 13 or younger who watched YouTube between July 1, 2013
and April 1, 2020 could be covered. The proposed settlement was filed last
night and now awaits judge approval.

This settlement amounts to a slap on the wrist compared to the $170 million
fine Google faced in 2019 following a similar suit brought by the Federal
Trade Commission for alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act. Under the terms of that case, YouTube had agreed to stop
collecting data on videos aimed at children, and both YouTube and Google were
prohibited from future COPPA violations.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtub...
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