Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info
Just a slap on the wrist in the grand scheme of things, considering how large the children's ad market is<p>>YouTube said that, in a about four months, it will begin treating data "from anyone watching children's content on YouTube as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user" and will stop serving personalized ads on this content and end comments and notifications on it.<p>I wonder if spoofing your identity as a child will become a viable anti tracking strategy