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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Investigating Google
Child advocacy groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate YouTube (which is owned by Google). There's a law that says it's illegal to target children with ads (without parental permission), and anyone who knows a kid, knows they spend all of their time on YouTube. Those YouTube users have their data mined, and ads are clearly being targeted to them. I know it's not Google's intent, but I think this is a case that may just have a point.