Disney has agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $ 10 million to make the allegations that it violated the federal law by labeling a cartoon on YouTube so that it could illegally submit children’s personal data.
The FTC has alleged that Disney has failed to label some of its famous children’s cartoon videos as “Med Med for Kids” on YouTube – a position that makes such videos disqualifying specific features, such as a collection of personal information. This is a method that makes YouTube difficult to target children with personal advertising. But instead of marking individual videos as “made for children” or “not made for children”, the FTC alleged that Disney left the default office at the channel level, so any video would not be uploaded to the “children” that would not be made for children.
As a result, videos with children’s friendly films like “The Incredibles,” “” Toy Story, “and” Frozen “will be eliminated for children, including the rapid restrictions of YouTube, including Disney’s expiry of YouTube for other children’s” children “. As a result, Disney collected information about children and presented target ads on videos that were technically prepared for children, FTC violated the children’s online privatization (COPPA) rules, which requires the consent of children under the age of 13 to collect information about children.
Disney should have known that some of his videos were wrongly marked, the government is accused, since YouTube has already told Disney in 2020 that he was labeled his videos wrongly, he has made more than 300 videos for children at this time “not made” for children. But Disney continued to upload videos with a default position at the channel level, the FTC says.
Under the proposed settlement, Disney will pay a $ 10 million civil settlement, willingly seek the consent of parents to collect data from children under the age of 13, and will create a new program to review whether the videos uploaded to YouTube should be made for children when they should not be maintained with their next year. If so, Disney will no longer need its own system to find out how the videos should be labeled.
