- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Jaclyn Jaeger2019-09-04T15:43:00
Google and its subsidiary YouTube will pay $170 million to settle allegations that the video-sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent.
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Epic Games, developer of the popular video game Fortnite, agreed to pay a record-breaking $520 million in penalties and restitution to settle allegations it violated online child privacy laws and employed illegal purchase patterns.
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the U.K. alleges YouTube unlawfully collects personal information from children without parental consent and harvests their data for advertising purposes, in violation of British and European data privacy laws.
App developer HyperBeard reached a watered-down $150,000 settlement with the FTC for illegally collecting children’s personal data without adequate disclosure and parental authorization.
Facial recognition company Clearview AI reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act, with the company agreeing to compensate victims with stake in the company.
The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for nearly six years. Some industries—and some companies—have been more prone to fall foul of the rules than others.
Big Tech firms might need to rethink their plans to charge users for not selling their personal data for behavioral advertising following a decision by Europe’s primary data regulator.
