U.S. Senator and consumer advocacy groups urge FTC to take action on YouTube's alleged COPPA violations

The groups behind a push to get the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate YouTube's alleged violation of children's privacy law, COPPA, have today submitted a new letter to the FTC that lays out the appropriate sanctions the groups want the FTC to now take. The letter comes shortly after news broke that the FTC was in the final stages of its probe into YouTube's business practices regarding this matter. The groups' formal complaint with the FTC was filed back in April 2018. The coalition, which then included 20 child advocacy, consumer and privacy groups, had claimed YouTube doesn't get parental consent before collecting the data from children under the age of 13 -- as is required by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA.