Whose Data is it anyways?
YouTube faces complaints demanding FTC probe over kids’ data. Yesterday, a coalition of 20 child advocacy, privacy and consumer groups filed a complaint asking the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Google-owned video site for alleged violations of children’s online privacy laws.
The groups -Common Sense Media, the Centre for Digital Democracy and Parents Across America — allege that YouTube violates COPPA, a federal law that regulates user data collection from sites with users who are under 13 years old. For Google, that could potentially mean billions of dollars of fines levied by the FTC. The argument is that kids of less than 13 are watching YouTube videos for which YouTube have not obtained parental consent and are collecting data.
Facebook Fiasco
Following Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing, last week. As well as several grovelling apologies for the significant breach on FB users privacy following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, several key changes have emerged. Including:
· Ads will be labelled, advertisers will be required to disclose who paid for those ads.
· Clearer menu settings
· Ability to delete 3rd party Apps
· Developers will lose access to data of unused Apps.
· APIS for Groups and Events will be restricted.
· If you do approve an app to access your data, it will only receive your picture, email address and name.
