{"id":185,"date":"2025-08-20T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/?p=185"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:06:43","slug":"google-pays-30m-to-settle-lawsuit-over-childrens-youtube-data-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/google-pays-30m-to-settle-lawsuit-over-childrens-youtube-data-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children\u2019s YouTube data 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google will pay $30 million to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/google-settles-youtube-childrens-privacy-lawsuit-2025-08-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">settle a class action lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0claiming it violated children\u2019s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13, per the longstanding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/legal-library\/browse\/rules\/childrens-online-privacy-protection-rule-coppa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">COPPA<\/a>\u00a0legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Google will settle the case, the company denies these allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s possible that up to 45 million people in the U.S. could be eligible to receive small payments from this class action, which encompasses anyone in the U.S. who watched YouTube while under the age of 13 between July 1, 2013 and April 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We\u2019re always looking to evolve, and by providing some insight into your perspective and feedback into TechCrunch and our coverage and events, you can help us! Fill out\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.researchresults.com\/survey\/selfserve\/53b\/g002\/s0064551?list=tcap#?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">this survey<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0to let us know how we\u2019re doing and get the chance to win a prize in return!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google will pay $30 million to\u00a0settle a class action lawsuit\u00a0claiming it violated children\u2019s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[33,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"category-youtube","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-youtube","11":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}