Category: Information Commissioner’s Office

YouTube Accused of Illegally Gathering Data on Children in Official Complaint by UK Parent

YouTube has been accused by a British parent of illegally gathering data on children under 13, which would be in breach of a UK data privacy code. Duncan McCann, who has three children, has lodged an official complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in which he claims YouTube gathered data on children’s viewing habits….


ICO Probes Companies Including Apple, Google

The UK’s data protection regulator contacted 40 companies in the areas of social media, gaming, video, music streaming, including Apple Inc. and Google, Financial Times reports. The Information Commissioner’s Office aims to investigate their interactions with children, including location tracking, personalizing content or advertising, and serving up behavioral nudges, like automatically playing videos endangering children online and…