Reply To: COPPA, the FTC and Youtube content appealing to children.

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How does one illegally collect info on children when you never really know if the user is a child ?

Never mind that the amount of data that YouTube et al collect is far more worrying.
As is the fact that most users give private info for a few cents discount or the ability to access a site.

Privacy is not dead.
The problem is that too few people realise how much of personall data they are sharing.

It’s the flockin’ cookie wall all over again.
That too resulted in a law that is impossible to enforce resulting in sites that try to force users into enabling all cookies (because disabling tracking requires an impossible to find ‘deny’ button)

And let’s not forget the toy industry itself is to blame for this escalating to this level.
I was recently watching an ad on tv where a ‘kid’ was advertising his (blatantly sponsored) YouTube channel …

COPPA is the typical solution that people without a clue as to how the world works invent to solve a problem by targetting a the symptom and not the cause.

So instead of telling Google / YouTube that they should not collect anything and sell that data they invent silly regulations that are impossible to enforce and/or that have fines that hurt the small channels more than the company that enabled them.