YouTube against children: video service will have to answer in court for collecting information about minors
Human rights defenders around the world sounded the alarm. They blame the popular YouTube resource for gathering information about children for their own financial gain.
Data is collected during view clips on the service. This is reported by CNN. An international group of human rights defenders demanded that the US authorities check the company's work. Googlebecause it is she who owns YouTube.
At the same time, a lawsuit was filed in court, lawyers are demanding to recover from Google neither more nor less than 1 trillion dollars.
Human rights activists point out that the service should more carefully check the age of its visitors. Now any child can deliberately hide his age, lie. Thus, the resource begins to collect information about the history of visits and forms a kind of "dossier" for the child.
Sociological studies have shown that about 45% of today's children in the United States, Russia, and other countries have access to YouTube accounts, under 12 years old.
Many children do not enlist the consent of their parents, which means that collecting information about them is inadmissible.
Lawyers from 20 law firms joined the complaint. They point out that the service illegally tracks the location of children, their movement across the Internet, determines the types of devices they use to view.
A popular video service, according to experts, has collected data more than 23 million minors just the last couple of years. If the court satisfies the demands of human rights defenders, the company will have to pay a fine of $ 41,000 for each child.