The Parent of a Five-Year-Old is Suing YouTube and its Biggest Kids Channels
YouTube’s FTC settlement has opened the floodgates for potential lawsuits, including one from the parent of a five-year-old
Nearly two months ago, YouTube announced it had settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for collecting and tracking personal details of minors without first notifying parents and getting their consent. The settlement ended with YouTube paying $170 million to the FTC — the largest-ever fine levied in the 21-year history of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
But that wasn’t the end of the story.
YouTube, alongside Cartoon Network, Hasbro, Dreamworks, Mattel, and three massive child-focused YouTube channels —Indian-based ChuChu TV, U.S.-based Ryan Toys Review (which recently rebranded to Ryan’s World), and CookieSwirlC, which has 12 million subscribers — have been named as defendants in a lawsuit from an angry parent filed this month in the Northern California District Court.
Nichole Hubbard, the mother of a five-year-old child who is named in the documents as C.H., alleges that the various defendants have “collected C.H.’s personal information for the purposes of tracking, profiling, and targeting C.H. with…
